Lego Holocaust Timeline

January 1933
Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany

February 1933
40,000 SA and SS men are sworn in as auxiliary police.

February 1933
The Reichstag building is burned, probably by the Nazis

February 1933
Emergency Powers are given to Hitler

March 1933
The Nazis open the first concentration camp

April 1933
Nazis define Jews as non-Aryan and boycott Jewish owned business

May 1933
Jewish books are burned in Berlin and other German cities

1933-1938
Jews lose almost almost all rights and are opressed by the Nuremberg Laws

November 1938
Kristallnacht; Night of the Broken Glass, riots that destroy Jewish shops and business. German police overlook it.

September 1939
Germany invades Poland. WWII has begun in Europe.

September 1939
Stalin's Russian troops invade Eastern Poland. He and Hitler plan to split the land between them when the country is occupied.

October 1941
Auschwitz is opened. Jews from around Europe will be killed here in their millions over the next few years.

June 1944
D-Day. Allied troops land in Normandy

1945
As the Allied forces push through Germany they liberate concentration camps.

April 1945
Hitler commits suicide

January 2015
Desk after going through WWII