Holocaust

By alihamm

  • 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. It began with a small guard unit known as the Saal-Schutz made up of NSDAP volunteers to provide security for party meetings in Munich.

  • 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 in 1939 intending to escape anti-Semitic persecution. The refugees tried to disembark in Cuba but were denied permission to land.

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor

    Part of Hitlers rise to power, becomes chancellor of Germany.

  • Hitler Claims Emergency Powers

    Hitler claims emergency powers that end up becoming permanent.

  • Boycott of Jewish Businesses

    Nazis boycotted Jewish business in retaliation to the boycott of german business.

  • Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases

    Mandates the forced sterilization of certain individuals with physical and mental disabilities.

  • Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals

    law allows courts to order the indefinite imprisonment of “habitual criminals” if they deem the person dangerous to society.

  • Nuremberg Laws

    The Nuremberg Laws were antisemitic and racist laws in Nazi Germany.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Madagascar Plan presented

    Madagascar and its "colonization" possibilities based on information gathered from the French Colonial Office. An evacuation plan was added calling for 4 million Jews to be shipped to Madagascar over a period of four years and also advocated the creation of a "police reserve" as a giant ghetto. The plan was to be financed by a special bank managing confiscated Jewish property and by contributions exacted from world Jewry.

  • Kristallnacht/The Night of Broken Glass

    Boycott and vandalism of Jewish businesses done by Nazis and germans.

  • Einsatzgruppen starts

    Death squads made of Nazis started mass killings.

  • Germany invades Poland

    The invasion of Poland marked the beginning of WWII.

  • Lodz Ghetto Opens

    In early February 1940, the Germans established a ghetto in the northeastern section of Lodz. About 160,000 Jews, more than a third of the city's population, were forced into a small area.

  • The Commisair Order

    An order issued by the German High Command (OKW) on 6 June 1941 before Operation Barbarossa. Its official name was Guidelines for the Treatment of Political Commissars (

  • Yellow Star for German Jews

    Jews throughout Nazi-occupied Europe were forced to wear a badge in the form of a Yellow Star as a means of identification.The star was intended to humiliate Jews and to mark them out for segregation and discrimination. The policy also made it easier to identify Jews for deportation to camps.

  • Babi Yar

    A large ravine on the northern edge of the city of Kiev in Ukraine, the site of a mass grave of victims, mostly Jews, whom Nazi German SS squads killed between 1941 and 1943.

  • Last Gassing at Auschwitz

    This was the last gassing at the concentration camp that killed the most people.

  • 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

    A camp made for Gypsies. Roma and Sinti were held here.

  • Himmler Orders Liquidation of Ghettos

    Liquidated most holocaust camps made by Germany.

  • Himmler Orders Destruction of Auschwitz

    The gas chambers and crematoriums in Auschwitz were ordered to be destroyed. The SS was trying to destroy evidence of mass killings.

  • Dr Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz

    he was appointed by Heinrich Himmler to be chief doctor at supplementary extermination camp at Auschwitz, where he and his staff selected incoming Jews for labour or extermination and where he supervised medical experiments on inmates

  • Liberation of Auschwitz

    On January 27, 1945, 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

    Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head.

  • International Military Tribunal

    Nazi leaders were trialed for crime in Germany after WWII. (war crimes, crimes against humanity, etc)

  • Auschwitz opens

    Auschwitz was a complex of 40 concentration camps. It killed at least 1.1 million people.

  • Adolf Eichmann captured

    Nazi SS officer who organized Adolf Hitler’s “final solution of the Jewish question,” was seized by Israeli agents in Argentina on May 11 and smuggled to Israel nine days later.

  • Dr Josef Mengele Dies

    Dr. Josef Mengele, (Nazi doctor who performed medical experiments at the Auschwitz death camps) dies of a stroke while swimming.