Time Line for events during the Holocaust
1932 -- Hitler gains power in Germany. Anti-Semitism in Germany becomes "official" government decree.
1933-1935 -- Anti-Jewish legislation enacted in Germany.
1936 -- The SS (Gestapo) formed in Germany to spearhead the "Final Solution."
1938 -- Germany invades Austria and Czechoslovakia, rounding-up Jews and deporting them work camps
1938 -- The terror against the Jews officially begins in Germany with "Kristallnacht," igniting the Holocaust.
1939 -- Germany invades Poland. Jews rounded-up and sent to concentration camps and work camps. World War II begins.
1940 -- Death camps established in Poland, first for Polish Jews, later for all European Jews caught in the Nazi web.
-- Germany invades France, Belgium, Luxembourg , the Netherlands, Norway, Rumania, Denmark, and Solvakia. Jews deported to death camps.
1941 -- Germany invades the Soviet Union (Russia), Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. SS begin killing Jews in Russia and others shipped to exermination camps in Poland.
-- Jewish ghettos established in all German-occupied countries, before deportation to death camps.
-- Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece. Jews deported to death camps.
1943 -- "Final Solution" in full force. No escape for Jews.
-- Germany occupies Italy.
1944 -- Germany occupies Hungary. Jews deported to extermination camps.
1945 -- Germany surrenders. Death camps and concentration camps liberated by allies.
1946 -- Nuremberg Trials against war criminals.
1947-1999 -- Search continues for war criminals of those committing genocide.
