troops arrive at Auschwitz to discover seven thousand six
hundred survivors; most prisoners had been sent out on a death
march eight days before.
March 1945—Anne Frank dies of typhus in Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp. Hitler orders the destruction of all Germany,
believing it to be unworthy of surviving him. His order mandates
the destruction of not only military installations, but also all
stores, industries, and transportation and communication
installations. Nothing is to fall into enemy hands.
April 1945—Most Jewish prisoners remaining at Buchenwald
concentration camp in Germany are forced out on death marches.
On his last visit to Theresienstadt, Adolf Eichmann is heard to say,
“I shall gladly jump into the pit, knowing that in the same pit there
are five million enemies of the state.” United States troops liberate
Buchenwald and Dachau; British troops liberate Bergen-Belsen.
United States troops occupy Munich. On April 30, Hitler commits
suicide in a Berlin bunker and Germany surrenders.
October 1946—Nuremberg Trials: Ten top Nazi commanders
are hanged.
Adapted from Aish.com
aish.com/ho/timeline/Timeline-of-the-Holocaust.html
52 | Never Again: A Holocast Remembered
/Aish.com
/Timeline-of-the-Holocaust.html