Genocide Timeline by Jake Leach and Joe Kessler

  • Schutzstaffel Organized

    A major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. This was good for Germany. This gave them an eiite group called the SS.
  • Germany invades Poland

    Britain and France, standing by their guarantee of Poland's border, had declared war on Germany. The Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland. This was bad for everyone because this started WWII.
  • Hitler becomes Chancellor

    After the Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act of 1933 in that month. President Paul von Hindenburg had already appointed Hitler as Chancellor. Good for Germany. They needed a radical leader. Bad for many other countries.
  • Hitler Claims Emergency Powers

    The combined effect of the two laws was to transform Hitler's government into a legal dictatorship. This was bad for Germany I would say. This is because Hitler is so radical he will make a very impulsive or bad decision.
  • Boycott of Jewish Businesses

    This was claimed to be a defensive reaction to the Jewish boycott of German goods, which had been initiated but quickly abandoned in March 1933. This affected the Germans because it was a boycott against them.
  • Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases

    Everyone who was at Auschwitz who had any sort of mental illness or handicap was killed. This affected the people who had these handicaps very greatly.
  • Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals

    The new law allows courts to order the indefinite imprisonment of “habitual criminals” if they deem the person dangerous to society. This affected those who had done things prior to the Nazi party reign or during it in a negative way.
  • Nuremberg Laws

    The Nuremberg Laws made official the Nazi persecution of the Jew’s. Very bad for the Jew’s. This was when they would be transported to ghettos and concentration camps.
  • Reichs Zentrale is created

    Its creation was the sign of the revival of persecution of homosexuals. Bad for all of the homosexuals in Germany. This gave a sign to what kind of a person Hitler was.
  • Nazi’s Occupy Rhineland

    Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles. This is not good or bad really. Hitler was just taking what was his.
  • Kristallnacht/The Night of Broken Glass

    A massive attack was charged against the Jews during the night. Called this because of all of the shattered glass in the buildings. This affected the Jewish in a negative way.
  • Lodz Ghetto Opens

    The Litzmannstadt Ghetto was a World War II ghetto established by the Nazi German authorities for Polish Jews and Roma following the 1939 invasion of Poland. This was not a good sign for the Jew’s. It was a presage for later.
  • Einsatzgruppen, starts

    The Einsatzgruppen, often drawing on local civilian and police support, carried out mass-murder operations. This was bad mostly for the jews because of the mass murders.
  • St. Louis Ship (with Jews)

    A German ocean liner known for carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Germany in 1939. Bad for Jew’s. They don’t know where they are going.
  • Auschwitz opens

    The largest of the Nazi concentration and death camps. This was very bad news for the jews because of what was to come
  • Madagascar Plan presented

    An idea by the Nazi German government to relocate the Jewish population of Europe to the island of Madagascar. This could have been good and bad. Bad because they would have no contact to the world except africa. Good because the Jew’s wouldn’t have to bear the cold.
  • Dr Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz

    Josef Mengele was appointed by Heinrich Himmler to be chief doctor at Birkenau, the supplementary extermination camp at Auschwitz, where he and his staff selected incoming Jews for labor or extermination and where he supervised medical experiments on inmates to discover means of increasing. This was bad for some jews who got experimented on.
  • The Commissar Order

    an order issued by the German High Command on 6 June 1941 before Operation Barbarossa. Good for Germany. Could be bad for others.
  • Babi Yar

    More than 30,000 Jews were marched in small groups to the Babi Yar ravine to the north of the city, ordered to strip naked, and then machine-gunned into the ravine. This really affected the jews because they got killed because of this.
  • Wannsee Conference

    Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel leaders. This was good for Germany. This was because they could discuss key ideas that they wanted to execute.
  • Creation of the Zigeunerlager

    The Gypsy family camp known as the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp), which existed for 17 months, was setup in Auschwitz-Birkenau sector BIKe. This was bad for the Jews because it got more of them killed.
  • Himmler Orders Liquidation of ghettos

    All Jews were to be collected from ghettos and transported to concentration camps. Jew’s did not know it at first. But they would be going somewhere very bad.
  • Yellow Star for German Jews

    Jews were ordered to wear in public during certain periods by the ruling Christians and Muslims. Bad for Jew’s. This was because if they did not want to be seen they could not hide it.
  • Himmler Orders Destruction of Auschwitz

    Soon after the liberation of Auschwitz and the end of the war Nazi officials ordered the camps to be destroyed. This was a big effect because it got rid of some of the evidence of the horrific event. Affected history.
  • Last Gassing at Auschwitz

    The last group of the Jews or gypsies were gassed. Soon after the rest were liberated. This affected every race that took place in Auschwitz because the terror had almost come to an end.
  • International Military Tribunal

    .Many major Nazi German leaders on charges of crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and conspiracy to commit each of these crimes. This is good because it brings justice to the world.
  • Liberation of Auschwitz

    Soviet army entered Auschwitz and liberated more than 7,000 remaining prisoners, who were mostly ill and dying. This was a very positive impact on the Jews/gypsies. But not all were liberated.
  • Hitler Commits Suicide

    He killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. I would say this is good for about every country and Jew except for the axis countries.
  • Adolf Eichmann captured

    Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion made the decision that Eichmann should be captured and brought to Israel for trial. This affected everyone because they were all affected by the bad person.
  • Dr Josef Mengele Dies

    While visiting his friends Wolfram and Liselotte Bossert in the coastal resort of Bertioga, he suffered another stroke while swimming and drowned. This affected him because he died.