Holocaust

By 22hpierce@grandviewstudents.org

  • Schutzstaffel Organized

    A military group to help Hitler gain power.

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor

    Hitler comes to power legally.

  • Hitler Claims Emergency Powers

    Hitler gets complete power of Germany making him a dictator.

  • Germans boycott Jewish businesses.

    Germans boycott Jewish businesses and drive a lot of jews out of Germany.

  • Boycott of Jewish Businesses

    Germans boycott Jewish businesses driving a lot of Jewish people out of Germany.

  • Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases

    Germany passes a law that the mentally ill and those with physical disabilities are sent to concentration camps.

  • Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals

    Germans pass a law arresting all sex offenders and other people are deemed a danger to society.

  • Creation of the Zigeunerlager

    Gypsies and Roma are now in concentration camps.

  • Creation of the Zigeunerlager

    Gypsies and roma are now in concentration camps.

  • Nuremberg Laws

    Jews & Aryans are not allowed to marry.

  • Nazi’s Occupy Rhineland

    German troops march into the Rhineland.

  • Kristallnacht/The Night of Broken Glass

    Germans do a raid on Jewish people in Germany burning Synagogues and looting Jewish stores.

  • St. Louis Ship

    A ship carrying jews that escaped Germany but were not allowed to enter Canada, U.S. or Cuba so they went back to Europe.

  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland starting WWII.

  • Lodz Ghetto Opens

    The largest ghetto opens in Poland.

  • Madagascar Plan presented

    A German plan to move all of the Jewish people to Madagascar.

  • Auschwitz opens

    Auschwitz opens and Germans start using it to hold prisoners.

  • Auschwitz opens

    Auschwitz opens and Germans start taking prisoners.

  • Yellow Star for German Jews

    Jewish people from Germany are given a yellow star for identification.

  • The Commissar Order

    Germans order to kill Commissars on sight.

  • Einsatzgruppen starts

    Hitlers military force is deployed in Poland for the first time.

  • Babi Yar

    Germain soldiers commit a mass killing of 34,000 jews.

  • Babi Yar

    Germans commit a mass killing of Jewish people in Ukraine.

  • Wannsee Conference

    When the Nazis decided how to kill the Jewish people.

  • Dr Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz

    Mengele starts doing experiments on people in concentration camps.

  • Last Gassing at Auschwitz

    The germans gas there final time of prisoners.

  • Himmler Orders Destruction of Auschwitz

    German effort to cover up the holocaust starts.

  • Himmler Orders Liquidation of ghettos

    Germany's final effort to cover up the Holocaust.

  • Liberation of Auschwitz

    Soviet soldiers free 7,000 prisoners at Auschwitz.

  • Hitler Commits Suicide

    Hitler commits suicide in a bunker.

  • International Military Tribunal

    The Nazi officers are faced with there crimes against humanity.

  • Adolf Eichmann is captured

    Adolf Eichmann is captured by Americans in Argentina to face his war crimes.

  • Adolf Eichmann captured

    Eichmann is captured by American soldiers in Argentina to face his war crimes.

  • Dr Josef Mengele Dies

    Mengele dies drowning when swimming at a resort.