Summary Timeline of the Holocaust - A level History
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Course
A level history
Institution
A Level History
A complete timeline of the build up to the Holocaust and its development throughout the Second World War. Made for the CIE/CAIE History A level (9489) syllabus but can be used for other exams boards.
Timeline
Sept, 1791: Jews emancipated in France - the removal of all legal discrimination against
Jews and the granting of rights equal
1930s: 500,000 German Jews make up less than one percent (0.8%) of the German
population
1933: Hitler is reluctantly appointed as chancellor by Paul von Hidenburg
➔ Start of anti-jewish laws
Feb, 1933: SS and SA forces organised the first of frequent violent boycotts targeting Jews
March 5th, 1933: election of the Reichstag producing a narrow nationalist majority
March 10th, 1933: Hitler publicly expressed opposition to spontaneous acts of anti-semitism
March 31st, 1933: Decree of the Berlin City Commissioner for Health - suspended Jewish
doctors from the city's social welfare services.
April 1st, 1933: April boycott - SA guards blocked access to Jewish-owned businesses and
daubed anti-Jewish slogans on the shops
➔ Only lasted 1 day due to the lack of resonance with German shoppers
April 7th, 1933: The Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service - removed Jews
from government service.
April 7th, 1933: The Law on the Admission to the Legal Profession - forbidded the admission
of Jews to the bar.
April 25, 1933: German law restricted the number of Jewish students at German schools and
universities
July 14th, 1933: The Denaturalization Law - revoked the citizenship of naturalised Jews and
“undesirables.”
Oct 4th, 1933: The Law on Editors bans Jews from editorial posts.
1934: the government forbade Jewish actors to perform on the stage or screen
1934: Emanuel Hirsch described Marxism as “the product of a German-Jewish mixed
marriage and as evidence for the impossibility of Jewish emancipation on the soil of
Christian nationhood”
May 21st, 1935: The Army Law - expelled Jewish officers from the army
Sept 15th, 1935: the Nuremberg Race Laws - first announced at a Nazi Party rally held in
the German city of Nuremberg, they aimed to conserve aryan ‘purity’. They were composed
of two laws:
● The Reich Citizenship Law: defined a citizen as a person who is “of German or
related blood.” This meant that Jews, defined as a separate race, could not be full
citizens of Germany, and had no political rights.
● The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour: against what the
Nazis viewed as race-mixing or “race defilement” (“Rassenschande”). It banned
future intermarriages and sexual relations between Jews and people “of German or
related blood.”
1936: Olympic Games - the Nazi regime actually toned down much of its public anti-Jewish
rhetoric and activities by removing some of the signs saying "Jews Unwelcome" from public
places
● Still gave the other countries an idea of what was going on
Jan 11th, 1936: The Executive Order on the Reich Tax Law - forbids Jews to serve as tax
consultants.
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