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  • Schutzstaffel Organized

    The Schutzstaffel was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.

  • St. louis ship (with Jews)

    During World War II, the Motorschiff St. Louis was a German ocean liner which carried more than 900 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany

  • Hitler becomes chancellor

    President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or führer of the National Socialist German Workers Party or Nazi Party, as chancellor of Germany

  • Hitler claims emergency powers

    President Hindenburg signed the Emergency Decree for the Protection of the German People. This decree suspended the democratic aspects of the Weimar Republic and declared a state of emergency.

  • Boycott of jewish businesses

    The Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses in Germany was claimed to be a defensive reaction to the Jewish boycott of German goods

  • Law for the prevention of hereditary diseases

    The German government passes the “Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases" mandating the forced sterilization of certain individuals with physical and mental disabilities.

  • Nuremberg Laws

    The Nuremberg Laws were anti semitic and racist laws in Nazi Germany. They were enacted by the Reichstag on 15 September 1935, at a special meeting convened during the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party.

  • Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals

    Under the Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals (passed
    November 24 1935), habitual criminals were forced to undergo sterilisation as well.

  • Nazi’s Occupy Rhineland

    DescriptionThe remilitarisation of the Rhineland by the German Army began on March 7 1936 when German military forces entered the Rhineland.

  • 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.

  • Kristallnacht/The Night of Broken Glass

    Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November Pogrom, was a pogrom against Jews carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany

  • Yellow Star for German Jews

    The Jews of Europe were legally compelled to wear badges or distinguishing garments

  • Einsatzgruppen starts

    Einsatzgruppen were Schutzstaffel paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass killings, primarily by shooting, during World War II in German-occupied Europe

  • 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. World War II had begun.

  • Lodz Ghetto Opens

    When German forces occupied Lodz on september 8 1939, the city had a population of 672,000 people.

  • Auschwitz opens

    The camps were opened over the course of nearly two years, 1940-1942. Auschwitz closed in January 1945 with its liberation by the Soviet army. More than 1.1 million people died at Auschwitz, including nearly one million Jews. Those who were not sent directly to gas chambers were sentenced to forced labor.

  • Madagascar Plan presented

    In the years before the beginning of the Holocaust, the Nazi government launched an audacious plan to exile European Jews to the island of Madagascar.

  • Babi yar

    Babi Yar is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and a site of massacres carried out by German forces during their campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II.

  • The Commissar Order

    The deeply ideological nature of the Germans' fight against the Soviet Union was reflected in the Commissar Order issued by the German Armed Forced High Command

  • Last Gassing at Auschwitz

    The last inmates gassed in Auschwitz I, were 300–400 members of the Auschwitz II Sonderkommando, who had been forced to dig up and burn the remains of that camp's mass graves, thought to hold 100,000 corpses.

  • Wannsee Conference

    The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel leaders, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee

  • Creation of the Zigeunerlager

  • Dr Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz

  • Himmler Orders Liquidation of ghettos

    Heinrich Himmler issued an order to liquidate all ghettos and transfer remaining Jewish inhabitants to concentration camps. A few ghettos were re-designated as concentration camps

  • 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.

  • Liberation of Auschwitz

    the largest camp established by the Germans. A complex of camps, Auschwitz included a concentration camp, killing center, and forced-labor camps.

  • Hitler Commits Suicide

  • International Military Tribunal

    The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals held after World War II by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war.

  • Adolf eichmann captured

    Eichmann was captured by the Mossad in Argentina on 11 May 1960 and subsequently found guilty of war crimes in a widely publicised trial in Jerusalem, where he was executed by hanging in 1962.

  • Dr Josef Mengele Dies

    While visiting his friends Wolfram and Liselotte Bossert in the coastal resort of Bertioga, Mengele suffered another stroke while swimming and drowned.