A Brief Chronology of the Final Solution
6 September 1919:
Hitler letter to Gemlich
13 November 1919:
Hitler’s first public speech
February 1920:
Nazi P
a
rty
T
wenty-
F
ive
P
oint
P
rogram
8 November 1923:
Beer Hall Putsch
November 1923- December 1924
Mein Kampf
30 January 1933:
Hitler named Chancellor
March-April 1933:
The Anti- Jewish Boycott
20 March 1933:
Himmler opens Dachau
23 March 1933:
Enabling Act
April 1933:
Anti-Jewish Legislation
4 April 1933:
Hindenberg letter to Hitler
August 1933:
the
“Haavara agreements”
15 September 1935:
The
Nuremberg Laws
5 November 1937:
The Hossbach Memorandum
12 March 1938:
Anschluss
March 1938:
Eichmann (S.D.) forces 50,000 Austrian Jews to emigrate in six months
9 November 1938:
Kristallnacht
12 November 1938:
Air Ministry meeting
July 1939:
T-4
E
uthanasia
P
rogram
I
nitiated
30 January 1939:
Reichstag
S
peech
July 1939:
Operation Tannenberg
21 September 1939:
Heydrich
Directive
to Einsatzgruppen Officers
12 February 1940:
Goring opposes evacuation measures that would deplete labor in the East
.
24 March 1940:
Goring, at Frank’s request, forbids further deportations of Jews and Poles into the General Government
24 June 1940:
Hitler, Ribbentrop meet with Mussolini: Madagascar Plan
18 December 1940:
Hitler signs Operation Barbarossa
O
rders
.
13 March 1941:
Keitel Secret Directive for Operation Barbarossa
.
22 June 1941:
Operation Barbarossa
launched
.
23 June 1941:
Einsatzgruppen Killings in Tilsit
31 July 1941
Letter from Goering To Heydrich Concerning Solution Of Jewish Question
early August 1941:
Eichmann visits Hoss at Auschwitz
3 August 1941:
Catholic Bishop accuse
s
the
government
of carrying out mass murder of the mentally ill at the Marienthal Asylum.
3 September 1941:
First experimental gassing with Zyklon B, of Soviet
prisoners is conducted at Auschwitz
29, 30 September 1941:
Babi Yar massacre of 33,000
25 October 1941:
Hitler Table Talk
20 January 1942:
Wannsee Conference