Holocaust - Timeline - 1937

Start of the Aryanization of the economy: Jewish owners forced, without legal basis, to sell their businesses, in most cases considerably below the value of their goods.

June 12

Secret order by SS Obergruppenfuehrer (Lt. General) Heydrich pertaining to protective custody for Race Violators following the conclusion of the normal legal process.

July 16

Buchenwald concentration camp opens.

Autumn 1937

Beginning of the systematic take over of Jewish property.

November

Munich exhibition of “The Wandering Jew” depicting the Jew as financial exploiter.

November 17

Lord Halifax visits Hitler regarding Sudetenland, appeasement begins

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