A Lego Timeline Of The Holocaust

Mr_Incognito Published 01/20/2015

British teen John Denno depicts the Holocaust in toys.

1.
January 1933- Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany.
2.
February 1933- 40,000 SA and SS men are sworn in as auxiliary police.
3.
February 1933- The Reichstag building is burned, probably by the Nazis.
4.
February 1933- Emergency Powers are given to Hitler.
5.
March 1933- The Nazis open the first concentration camp.
6.
April 1933- Nazis define Jews as non-Aryan and boycott Jewish owned business.
7.
May 1933- Jewish books are burned in Berlin and other German cities.
8.
1933 to 1938- Jews lose almost almost all rights and are opressed by the Nuremberg Laws.
9.
November 1938- Kristallnacht, Night of the Broken Glass, riots that destroy Jewish shops and business. German police overlook it.
10.
September 1939- Germany invades Poland. WWII has begun in Europe.
11.
September 1939- Stalin's Russian troops invade Eastern Poland. He and Hitler plan to split the land between them when the country is occupied.
12.
October 1941- Auschwitz is opened. Jews from around Europe will be killed here in their millions over the next few years.
13.
June 1944- D-Day. Allied troops land in Normandy.
14.
1945- As the Allied forces push through Germany they liberate concentration camps.
15.
April 1945- Hitler commits suicide.

1.
January 1933- Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany.
2.
February 1933- 40,000 SA and SS men are sworn in as auxiliary police.
3.
February 1933- The Reichstag building is burned, probably by the Nazis.
4.
February 1933- Emergency Powers are given to Hitler.
5.
March 1933- The Nazis open the first concentration camp.
6.
April 1933- Nazis define Jews as non-Aryan and boycott Jewish owned business.
7.
May 1933- Jewish books are burned in Berlin and other German cities.
8.
1933 to 1938- Jews lose almost almost all rights and are opressed by the Nuremberg Laws.
9.
November 1938- Kristallnacht, Night of the Broken Glass, riots that destroy Jewish shops and business. German police overlook it.
10.
September 1939- Germany invades Poland. WWII has begun in Europe.
11.
September 1939- Stalin's Russian troops invade Eastern Poland. He and Hitler plan to split the land between them when the country is occupied.
12.
October 1941- Auschwitz is opened. Jews from around Europe will be killed here in their millions over the next few years.
13.
June 1944- D-Day. Allied troops land in Normandy.
14.
1945- As the Allied forces push through Germany they liberate concentration camps.
15.
April 1945- Hitler commits suicide.