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Himmler Orders Liquidation of ghettos
This collection contains records relating to Jewish underground organizations in ghettos in occupied Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Slovakia, France, and many other countries, Jewish participation in partisan movements against the Nazis and their allies, as well as Jewish life generally before, during, and after the Holocaust. This affected everyone because a lot of people were killed. -
Schutzstaffel Organized
a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II. This affected everyone because they were in control of camps and mass killings. -
St. Louis Ship (with Jews)
a German ocean liner known for carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Germany in 1939. This affected jews because they weren't allowed to go anywhere so they went back to germany only to die. -
Boycott of Jewish Businesses
the Nazi leadership decided to stage an economic boycott against the Jews of Germany. Local Nazi party chiefs organized the national boycott operation. Although it lasted only one day and was ignored by many individual Germans who continued to shop in Jewish-owned stores, it marked the beginning of a nationwide campaign by the Nazi Party against the entire German Jewish population. This affected jews because they lost their jobs. -
Hitler becomes Chancellor
Both daytime and nighttime scenes. Daylight scenes are good. Title: "Hindenburg and Hitler at the window of the Reichs Chancellery." Spotlit Nazi flags passing by. Hindenburg appears at the window, dimly lit from a lamp or candles behind him. SA men bearing torches run in formation. Hitler, spotlit at the window, salutes the crowd below. A brief closer view of Hitler at the window. This affects Germany as Germany now has a strong leader. This also affects others later on. (Holocaust). -
Hitler Claims Emergency Powers
To win emergency powers, Chancellor Hitler needed a two-thirds vote of approval from parliament. With his new number in Parliament and the support of conservative and middle-road politicians, he spoke to parliament on 23 March 1933. The only party to oppose the Enabling Act was the Social Democrats. The Communists, whose votes would have prevented a two-thirds majority, were not present. They had been arrested. This affected Germany, and others later on. (holocaust) -
Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases
forced the sterilization of all persons who suffered from diseases considered hereditary, such as mental illness -
Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases
forced the sterilization of all persons who suffered from diseases considered hereditary, such as mental illness This affected people at camps because if you were ill you were killed. -
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. It also provides for the castration of sex offenders. This affects jews because they were considered criminals. -
Nuremberg Laws
the Protection of German Blood and German Honour prohibited marriages and extramarital intercourse between Jews and Germans, and forbade the employment of German females under 45 in Jewish households. This affected the jewish people in Germany because they lost all their jobs and most their money. -
Reichszentrale is created
The Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion was the central instrument of Nazi Germany for the fight against homosexuality in Nazi Germany and the fight against abortion. This affected people because people got contracted and solidified dictatorship -
Nazi’s Occupy Rhineland
Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany. This affects everyone because this starts ww2 and a lot of people die. -
Kristallnacht/The Night of Broken Glass
30,000 German Jewish men were arrested for the "crime" of being Jewish and sent to concentration camps, where hundreds of them perished. This affected the Jewish because alot of them died. -
Einsatzgruppen, starts
A special SS and police units tasked with securing occupied territories as German armed forces advanced in eastern Europe. Following the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, these squads ruthlessly carried out the mass murder of Soviet Jews, Roma, and political opponents. This affected everyone -
Germany invades Poland
Sequence of outtakes begins with German planes flying overhead in 1939 during the German invasion of Poland. The Germans surround Poland from the south and the north, eventually reaching Warsaw and destroying the city. This affected the polish because they lost a lot of people. -
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. It was the second-largest ghetto in all of German-occupied Europe after the Warsaw Ghetto. This affected the targeted people because they were forced to live in a small area with terrible border that if you passed you were killed. -
The Commisair Order
an order issued by the German High Command on 6 June 1941 before Operation Barbarossa. Its official name was Guidelines for the Treatment of Political Commissars This affected the commissars because they killed all of them -
Babi Yar
SS and German police units and their auxiliaries, under guidance of members of Einsatzgruppe C, murdered the Jewish population of Kiev at Babi Yar, a ravine northwest of the city. This affected the Jewish population as a lot of jewish people were murdered. -
Wannsee Conference
a meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel leaders, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee This affected jews because the meeting was about how to kill the jews. -
Auschwitz opens
Auschwitz was the largest camp established by the Germans. It was a complex of camps, including a concentration, extermination, and forced-labor camp. It was located near Cracow (Krakow), Poland. Auschwitz affected just about everyone. -
Creation of the Zigeunerlager
The Nazi Germans regarded Sinti and Roma (Zigeuner (Gypsies), as they were referred to in official German documents of the period) as enemies of the Third Reich, and therefore sentenced them to isolation and extermination. Germany established strict principles for dealing with the Sinti and Roma, whom it regarded as racially alien, inferior, and asocial.
This affected Roma because they a group of gypsies and Germany hated gypsies. -
Josef Mengele's Death
A doctor at Auschwitz extermination camp who selected prisoners for execution in the gas chambers and conducted medical experiments on inmates in pseudoscientific racial studies. This affected the people who were at Auschwitz because he had killed many jews and other people. His death was good and bad in the since that he died (good), but he got to live out the rest of his life never paying for what he did. -
Yellow Star for German Jews
The star identified people as Jews. This affected the jews because they were easily able to spot and take to concentration camps to be killed -
Dr Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz
SS physician Josef Mengele conducted inhumane medical experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz. He was the most prominent of a group of Nazi doctors who conducted experiments that often caused great harm or death to the prisoners. This affected jews because they were experimented on in inhumane ways that probably wasn't painless. -
last gassing at auschwitz
Heinrich Himmler had ordered gassing with Zyklon-B to be stopped, according to a guide book sold at Auschwitz; the last "selection" of prisoners was on October 30, 1944. This affected people affected everyone, because more people were killed. -
Himmler Orders Destruction of Auschwitz
As Soviet forces continue to approach, SS chief Heinrich Himmler orders the destruction of the Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chambers and crematoria. During this SS attempt to destroy the evidence of mass killings, prisoners were forced to dismantle and dynamite the structures. -
Liberation of Auschwitz
Soviet army entered Auschwitz and liberated more than 7,000 remaining prisoners, who were mostly ill and dying. This affected everyone, because even though Soviets rescued the people, the soviets, Germany and the people at the camp lost a lot of lives. -
Hitler Commits Suicide
He killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. This affected everyone. -
International Military Tribunal
A trial of 21 major Nazi German leaders on charges of crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and conspiracy to commit each of these crimes. This affected everyone -
Madagascar Plan presented
The Madagascar Plan predated the Nazi period but was revived during the war. Under this plan, Europe's Jews were to be deported to the island of Madagascar. This affected the jews because a lot of them were killed during that time. -
Adolf Eichmann captured
Adolf Eichmann was arrested by American authorities and held in detention camps for SS members. He was later tried on fifteen separate counts, including crimes against the Jewish people, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and membership in a hostile organization. The jews were happy to see him finally brought to justice after 17 years.