Timeline of Important Events

• On January 30, 1933 Adolf Hitler Became the Chancellor of Germany.
•  On March 22, 1933 the Nazis open Dachu concentration camp near Munich. It was the first camp to be opened. Ravensbruck was a concentration camp just for women.
• On March 24, 1933 German Parliment passed the enabling act giving Hitler dictatorial powers.
• On July 14, 1933 the Nazi Party is declared the only legal party in Germany.
• In August of 1934 German President von Hindenburg dies and Hitler becomes the Fuhrer.
• On August 19, 1934 Hitler received 90% of the vote in favor of his new powers. 
• August 1, 1936 the Olympic games begin in Berlin. In order to gain favorable opinion from foreign visitors Hitler temporarily refrain from action against the Jews.
• In July of 1938 the League of Nations has a conference with delegates from 32 countries, including the USA, to consider helping Jews fleeing Hitler, but no action is taken 'cause no country would accept them into their country.
• In May of 1939 the St. Louis, a ship crowded with 930 Jewish refugees, is turned away by Cuba, USA, and other countries and returns to Europe.
• September 1, 1939 germany invades Poland setting off World War II.
• On January 25, 1940 the most famous of all the concentration camps opens when Auschwitz, in Poland, is opened.
• During the summer of 1941 Auschwitz is chosen as the site for the Final Solution of the Jewish question.
• In January 1942 the Germans start using Zyklon-B gas to kill the jews at Auschwitz and then dump the bodies in mass graves.
• July 7, 1942 Heinrich Himmler, on of Hitler's right hand men and chief of German police , grants permission for sterilization experiments at Auschwitz.
• From April 19-30, 1943, the Bermuda Conference takes place. As representative from the USA and Brittan discuss to problem of refugees from Nazi-controlled areas. But again no action in taken.
• August 2, 1943 200 Jews escape from Treblinka extermination camp, in Poland east of Warsaw, during a revolt. The Nazis hunt them down 1 by 1. 
• October 14, 1943 a massive escape from Sobibor, in Poland, happens as Jews and Soviet POW's breaking out. 300 make it saftly into some nearby woods. Of those 300, 50 will survive.
• On July 24, 1944 the first concentration camp is liberated at Majdanek, in Poland, by Soviet troops.
• On August 4, 1944, the now famous, Anne Frank and her family are arrested and then sent to Auschwitz. 
• October 30. 1944 is the last day that the gas chambers at Auschwitz are used. They will be compleatly detroyed on November 25, 1944.
• On January 27, 1945 the Soviets liberate Auschwitz after an estimated 2,000,000 people, including 1,500,000 Jews have been killed.
• On April 29, 1945 the U.S. 7th Army liberate Dachu, the first camp to be opened.
• On April 30, 1945 Hitler commits suicide in his bunker.
• May 9, 1945 Hermann Goring, Hitler's other right hand man, is captured.
• May 23, 1945 Heinrich Himmler, commits suicide.

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