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1923 Beer Hall Putsch
: In Munich
, Adolf Hitler
leads the Nazis
in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government. Police and troops crush the attempt the next day
1930 National socialists
win 107 seats in German parliament - 18.3% of all the votes makes them second largest party
1933 in German elections, National Socialists
gain 43.9% of the votes.
1933 Dachau, the first Nazi
concentration camp, is completed - opened March 22.
1933 The recently elected Nazis
under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany
.
1933 Stahlhelm organizations joins the Nazi
party.
1933 Nazi
party in Germany
introduces law to legalize eugenic sterilization
1933 All non-Nazi
parties forbidden in Germany
1934 Night of the Long Knives - Nazis
purge the SA
1934 Austrian Nazis
assassinate chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss during a failed coup attempt.
1938 Holocaust: Kristallnacht begins - In Germany
, the "night of broken glass" begins as Nazi
troops and sympathizers loot and burn Jew
ish businesses (the all night affair saw 7,500 Jewish businesses destroyed, 267 synagogue
s burned, 91 Jews killed, and at least 25,000 Jewish men arrested).
1939 Holocaust: The SS ''St. Louis'', a ship carrying a cargo of 963 Jew
ish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida
after already having been turned away from Cuba
. Forced to return to Europe
, most of its passengers later die in Nazi
concentration camps.
1941 Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler
, Nazi
official Hermann Göring
, orders SS general Reinhard Heydrich
to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."
1942 World War II
: Nazis
at the Wannsee conference in Berlin
decide that the "final solution to the Jew
ish problem" is relocation, and later extermination.
1942 World War II
: Nazis
burn the Czech village of Lidice as reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich
.
1943 World War II
: British
forces capture Tripoli
from the Nazis
.
1943 The Nazis
arrest the members of the White Rose movement.
1943 Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi
Germany.
1943 World War II: Julius Fucik is executed by Nazis
.
1944 - Shooting begins of the Nazi
propaganda film, "The Fuehrer Gives a Village to the Jews" in Theresienstadt.
1944 Holocaust: Nazi
troops end the Warsaw Uprising
.
1945 World War II
: The Soviet Union
begin the Vistula-Oder Offensive in Eastern Europe
against the Nazis
.
1945 Holocaust: Nazis
begin to evacuate from Auschwitz concentration camp
1945 The Red Army
arrives at Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland
and find the Nazi
concentration camp where 1.3 million people were murdered.
1945 World War II: Soviet Union
forces capture Budapest
, Hungary
from the Nazis
.
1945 The Allied Forces liberated their first Nazi
concentration camp, Buchenwald.
1945 World War II: Canadian
soldiers liberate the city of Amsterdam
from Nazi
occupation.
1945 Heinrich Himmler
, the head of the Nazi
Gestapo
, commits suicide in British custody.
1945 Nuremberg Trials begin: Trials against 24 Nazi
war criminals
of World War II
start at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice.
1946 Nuremberg Trials: Founder of the Gestapo
and recently convicted Nazi
war criminal, Hermann Göring
, poisons himself hours before his scheduled execution.
1947 15,000 demonstrate in Brussels
against the relatively short sentences of Nazis
.
1960 May 11 — In Buenos Aires
, 4 Mossad agents abduct fugitive Nazi
Adolf Eichmann
, who was using the alias "Ricardo Klement".
1960 May 23 — Prime Minister of Israel
David Ben-Gurion
announces that Nazi
war criminal Adolf Eichmann
has been captured.
1965 The West German
parliament extends the statute of limitations on Nazi
war crime
s.
1972 Prime minister of Sweden
, Olof Palme
compares the American bombings of North Vietnam
to Nazi
massacres. The US breaks diplomatic contact with Sweden.
1978 In Cologne
, 15,000 former members of the resistance movement demonstrate against National Socialism
.
1983 High ranking Nazi
war criminal
Klaus Barbie
is arrested in Bolivia
.
1994 The Duke of Edinburgh attends a ceremony in Israel
. where his late mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg is honoured as "Righteous among the Nations" for sheltering Jewish families from the Nazis
in Athens
, during World War II
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