This was designed for a lecture about the Rise of Nazism and the progression of their genocidal policies.

1. “All upright Germans will be National Socialists” from speeches to action Timothy Hensley Research Librarian Virginia Holocaust Museum

2. The Rise of the Third Reich How a street gang seized control of Germany

4. Monetary reparations (226 billion marks, reduced to 132 billion in 1921)

6. Hitler leader of NSDAP (1921)

7. “Beer Hall” Putsch (1923)

8. Convicted of treason (1924)

9. Writes Mein Kampf(1924)

10. German citizenship (1932)

11. Hitler loses to Hindenburg (1932)

12. Nazis receive 38% vote (1932)

13. Hitler appointed Chancellor (1933)

14. Reichstag Fire (1933)

15. Dachau opens (1933)

16. Enabling Act (1933)

17. Non-Nazi political parties banned (1933)

18. Hindenburg Dies (1934)

19. Hitler combines President/Chancellor post (1934)

20. Plebiscite vote – Hitler gets 89% (1934)

21. Sterilization Law (1933)

22. Nuremberg Laws (1935) No marriages between Jews and non-Jews Jews aren’t “Reich citizens” and don’t enjoy the same rights as German citizens Jews are defined as anyone who has three Jewish grandparents; or two Jewish grandparents and a Jewish spouse; or an adherent of Judaism

23. T4 to the Final Solution Germany’s progression from racism to genocide

24. Passport “J” (Oct 1938)

25. Kristallnacht (Nov 1938)

26. Invasion of Poland (Sept 1939)

27. T4 Begins (Sept 1939)

28. Jews sent to Ghettos (Oct 1939)

29. First Gassing (Jan 1940) Handicapped were transported to various locations to be gassed en masse.

30. Himmler’s 1941 Order Himmler authorizes the Einsatzgruppen to begin the “open air” killing of Jews in the eastern territories.

32. Some T4 doctors were sent to extermination camps to make selections

34. Chelmno opens (Dec 7, 1941)

35. Wannsee Conference (1942)

36. Death Camps Chelmno Auschwitz Majdanek Belzec Sobibor Treblinka

37. Questions? thensley@va-holocaust.com