Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany persecuted and killed vast numbers of people who did not conform to its ideas of racial and biological 'purity'.
This timeline takes you through all 12 years of Nazi rule. But it deliberately deprives you of the benefit of hindsight or a view of the future, ensuring you experience events in the sequence they happened to those who lived through them.
Hitler did not take power with a clear plan for Jews, 'Gypsies', the disabled and other groups. Instead, his regime gradually adopted ever more radical 'solutions', culminating in genocide and mass murder.
The timeline will allow you to decide if you too would have accepted the drip-drip of events that led to killing on an unimaginable scale.
A non-Flash version of the Timeline can be found here.
Credits
Author and consultant: Professor David Cesarani of Royal Holloway, London University
Images provided by: Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, Landesarchiv Berlin, The Wiener Library, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: a full list of images provided by the museum can be found here.
Designed and built by: Solaris Media
Concept developed by: The BBC History website team
Bookmark with:
What are these?