Holocaust

By 23lbaker

  • Schutzstaffel Organized

    The Schutzstaffel were para-military that fought for Hitler and the Nazis. They were most violent towards Jews and Gypsys.

  • St. Louis Ship (with Jews)

    This is a big ship that had over 900 Jews that were leaving Germany, but where denied access into Cuba. This mostly affected Jewish people trying to leave Germany.

  • Lodz Ghetto Opens

    This was one of the biggest ghettos ever opened in Poland and was mainly filled with Polish Jews and Romas.

  • Hitler Becomes Chancellor

    President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler as Chancellor after a series of parliamentary elections and associated events

  • Hitler Claims Emergency Powers

    The Enabling Act gave Hitler plenary powers which abolished most civil liberties and transferred state powers to the Reich government.

  • Boycott of Jewish Businesses

    After Adolf Hitler came to power, the Nazi leadership started an economic boycott against the German jews, this was called the boycott of Jewish Businesses

  • Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases

    This was the forced sterilization of people with mental illnesses and physical deformities. It mostly affected anyone the Nazis saw as unfit.

  • Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals

    it lets the Germins prosecute anyone they saw as unfit. This mostly affected Jews and Gypsys.

  • Nuremberg Laws

    The Nuremberg Laws were systematic laws that were blatantly anti-Semitic and made all Jews carry identification cards. It was targeted towards all Jews in Germany at the time.

  • Nazi’s Occupy Rhineland

    The Rhineland was a demilitarized zone that was created after the first world war. As the title implies, the Nazis occupied it and violated the Treaty of Versailles.

  • Reichs Zentrale is created

    This is a T.V. channel created before the war to promote Nazi propaganda.

  • Kristallnacht/The Night of Broken Glass

    Germens burned down synagogs and killed close to100 jews. Then, the next day, they sent 30000 Jewish men into concentration camps.

  • Germany Invades Poland

    German forces bombarded Poland and from the air as Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and rule Poland

  • Madagascar Plan presented

    This is when the Germans made a plan to relocate Jews to the island Madagascar. It was presented as a "super ghetto" and mostly affected Jews.

  • Einsatzgruppen, starts

    This was and is also known as Hitler's "war of annihilation against the Soviet Union

  • The Commissar Order

    This was an order from German high command that would kill all people that are part of the Boshovics to be killed. It mainly affected Russin POW's.

  • Yellow Star for German Jews

    Tese Yellow stars were pieces of fabric all Jews were forced to were. It was used for identification, and only affected Jewish people over six.

  • Babi Yar

    The Babi Yar was a massacre taking the lives of around 34,000 jewish men women and children.

  • Wannsee Conference

    This was a meeting of Nazis' most prestigious leaders and was a conference about the proposed "final solution" which is the mass killing of the Jewish peoples.

  • Last Gassing at Auschwitz

    This was a mass gassing because the germans knew it may be their last.

  • Creation of the Zigeunerlager

    This was a section for Gypsies at the Auschwitz camp along with the many other types/ethnicities at that particular concentration camp

  • Josef Mengele Arrives at Auschwitz

    Mengele was an SS physician, who was and still is known for his inhumane testing on the new prisoners to Auschwitz as well as twins

  • Himmler Orders Liquidation of Ghettos

    On June 21, 1943, 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 which then existed until 1944.

  • Himmler Orders Destruction of Auschwitz

    During the war, as Soviet forces continued to move closer to the Germans, Himmler ordered the destruction of Auschwitz along with the gas chambers

  • Liberation of Auschwitz

    This is when American troops stumbled upon Auschwitz and liberated the people living inside. It mostly affected the people and families of the people living there.

  • Hitler Commits Suicide

    The title tells you a lot about this event, other than the fact that it is still a little content on when or how he did it.

  • International Military Tribunal

    This was the main cause of the world persecuting the main Nazi leaders. They were charged with war crimes, pease crimes, crimes against humanity, and intent to do all of them.

  • Dr. Josef Mengele dies

    While eluding capture, Josef Mengele died from drowning while suffering a stroke during swimming off the coast of Bertioga

  • Opening of Auschwitz

    The first opening of Auschwitz was in April of the year 1960. Shortly after the opening, the first gassing happened to the Jewish and Soviet prisoners there at the start.

  • Adolf Eichmann captured

    David Ben-Gurion announces that Hitler (Adolf Eichmann) has been captured and being held on trial.