The Holocaust
1933–1945 · Event
Nazi Germany and its allies and collaborators persecute and murder six million European Jews, escalating from persecution after 1933 to systematic genocide from 1941; the regime also persecutes and kills millions of other victims.
On these timelines: The Holocaust, Master, Judaism, World War II, Germany
More from The Holocaust
- The mass transports reach Auschwitz (1942)
- The Einsatzgruppen killings begin (1941)
- Operation Reinhard (1942)
- The deportation of Hungary's Jews (1944)
- The Frank family is arrested (1944)
- Lemkin coins the word 'genocide' (1944)
- Death of Anne Frank (1945)
- The Évian Conference fails the refugees (1938)
Around 1933
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Winston Churchill's first premiership (1940)
- Hitler's rule of Germany (1933)