holocaust

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  • holocaust

    mass execution of minorities especially jews.

  • Schutzstaffel Organized

    The Schutzstaffel was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany

  • Reichzentrale is created

    The company was established in Berlin on 15 May 1925 with a start capital of 100,000 Reichsmark as an umbrella organisation by nine regional broadcasters

  • St. Louis Ship

    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

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor

    Hitller promoting an aryan society, is named chancellor of Germany and begins his reign of terror.

  • Hitler Claims Emergency Powers

    The Enabling Act gave Hitler plenary powers and followed on the heels of the Reichstag Fire Decree

  • Boycotted Jewish Business's

    The Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses in Germany began on April 1, 1933, and was claimed to be a defensive reaction to the Jewish boycott of German goods,

  • Law of prevention of hereditary disease

    Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring or "Sterilisation Law" was a statute in Nazi Germany enacted on July 14, 1933

  • Nuremberg Laws

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

  • Law against dangerous criminals

    German government passes a Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals. The new law allows courts to order the indefinite imprisonment of habitual criminals

  • Nazis occuy Rhineland

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

  • The night of broken glass

    Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November Pogrom

  • Yellow Star for German Jews

    Yellow starts indicate the jews in the German societys.

  • Germany invades Poland

    The invasion of Poland, marked the beginning of World War II. The German invasion began on 1 September 1939

  • Lotz Ghetto Opens

    Lodz had been a key industrial center in prewar Poland. The Lodz ghetto thus became a major production center under the German occupation.

  • Madagascar plan

    The Madagascar Plan was a proposal by the Nazi German government to forcibly relocate the Jewish population of Europe to the island of Madagascar.

  • 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.

  • The commisair order

    was an order issued by the German High Command on 6 June 1941

  • 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.

  • Einsatzgruppen, starts

    With the start of Hitler's war of annihilation against the Soviet Union in June 1941, the scale of Einsatzgruppen mass murder operations vastly increased.

  • Last gassing at Auschwitz

    The last inmates gassed in Auschwitz I, in December 1942, were 300/400 members of the Auschwitz II Sonderkommando

  • 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 on 20 January 1942.

  • Creation of the Zigeunerlager

    existed for 17 months, was set up in Auschwitz-Birkenau sector BIIe. The deportation of the Sinti and Roma began in February 1943 and continued until July 1944.

  • Dr Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz

    Josef Mengele was an SS physician, infamous for the inhumane medical the assistant of Dr. Otmar von Verschuer at the Institute for Hereditary Biology trainloads of new prisoners arrived at Auschwitz, searching for 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.

  • Himmler Orders Destruction of Auschwitz

    Himmler Orders Demolition of Auschwitz Gas Chambers and Crematoria.

  • Liberation of Auschwitz

    Liberated by, Soviet Union, 27 January 1945

  • Hitler Commits Suicide

    Hitler ends his life after losing the war.

  • 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.

  • Dr Josef Mengele Dies

    7 February 1979 (aged 67) Bertioga, Brazil