History

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  • 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. Anyone under the organization was afraid on the organization.

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor

    Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany, later then building camps and creating a mass genocide.

  • Hitler Claims Emergency Powers

    This gave the Nazis a legal basis for the persecution and oppression of any opponents, who were be framed as traitors to the republic. People could be imprisoned for any or no reason.

  • Yellow Star for German Jews

    Yellow Star for German Jews. This impacted the Jews because the yellow stars identified them as Jews.

  • Boycott of Jewish Businesses

    It was a defensive reaction to the Jewish boycott of German goods. The Nazi leadership decided to stage an economic boycott against the Jews of Germany.

  • Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases

    The sterilization of all persons who suffered from diseases considered hereditary, such as mental illness. This affected anyone with a mental or physical disabilites in the camps.

  • 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 arrested many Gypsies.

  • Nuremberg Laws

    The Protection of German Blood and German Honour prohibited marriages and extramarital intercourse between Jews and Germans. This impacts the Jews.

  • Nazi’s Occupy Rhineland

    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 impacted the treaty because the Germans were breaking the treaty.

  • 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 impacted anyone who is homosexual and anyone who wants an abortion.

  • Kristallnacht/The Night of Broken Glass

    Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass," for the shattered glass from the store windows that littered the streets. The morning after the pogroms 30,000 German Jewish men were arrested for the "crime" of being Jewish and sent to concentration camps, where hundreds of them perished.

  • St. Louis Ship (with Jews)

    MS St. Louis was a German ocean liner known for carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Germany in 1939.

  • Germany invades Poland

    German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. This began WW2 which impacted everyone involved.

  • Lodz Ghetto Opens

    A World War II ghetto established by the Nazi German authorities for Polish Jews and Roma following the 1939 invasion of Poland. This impacted the Polish jews and roma people.

  • Auschwitz Opens

    People over many different groups started being transformed into the camps. These camps included Jews and many other groups who were tortured or killed.

  • Madagascar Plan presented

    The Nazi German government to relocate the Jewish population of Europe to the island of Madagascar. This impacted the Jews.

  • The Commissar Order

    Was an order issued by the German High Command. Operating as they did outside the military hierarchy, commissars acted as a conduit from the party to the ranks of ordinary soldiers, transmitting political propaganda and preventing dissension. This impacted the soviet union.

  • Einsatzgruppen starts

    Special action squads, or Einsatzgruppen, made up of Nazi (SS) units and police, moved with speed on the heels of the advancing German army. Their job was to kill any Jews they could find in the occupied Soviet territory. This impacted the Jews.

  • Babi Yar

    The Babi Yar was when more than 30,000 Jews were marched in small groups to the Babi Yar ravine. It affected the Jews because they were ordered to strip naked, and then machine-gunned into the ravine

  • Wannsee Conference

    On this day, Nazi officials meet to discuss the details of the “Final Solution” of the “Jewish question.” This impacted the Jews.

  • Creation of the Zigeunerlager

    This was the creation of Gypsy camps. This impacted the Gypsies.

  • Dr Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz

    A man who will earn the nickname “the Angel of Death.” He arrived as the new doctor at Auschwitz. He would do experiments on inmates.

  • Himmler Orders Liquidation of ghettos

    This was the order to eliminate of all surviving Jews in the occupied Soviet territories. This impacted the Jews.

  • Last Gassing at Auschwitz

    The SS cleared the Gypsy camp; the surviving population (estimated at 2,897 to 5,600) was then killed en masse in the gas chambers. This killed so many Gypsies.

  • 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. This affected everyone in the camp.

  • Liberation of Auschwitz

    The Soviet army entered Auschwitz and liberated more than 7,000 remaining prisoners, who were mostly ill and dying. It is estimated that at minimum 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945; of these, at least 1.1 million were murdered.

  • Hitler Commits Suicide

    Hitler Commits Suicide. This affects all the targeted groups.

  • International Military Tribunal

    . The International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, begins a trial of 21 (of 24 indicted) major Nazi German leaders on charges of crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and conspiracy to commit each of these crimes. This impacts the Nazis.

  • Adolf Eichmann captured

    Argentina had a history of turning down extradition requests for Nazi criminals, so rather than filing a possibly futile request for extradition, Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion made the decision that Eichmann should be captured and brought to Israel for trial. On May 31 he was hanged.

  • Dr. Josef Mengele dies

    The “Angel of Death” dies. Dr. Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi doctor who performed medical experiments at the Auschwitz death camps, dies of a stroke while swimming in Brazil.