Holocaust

By 22sgerhold

  • Schutzstaffel Organized

    Parliament organization. It was guarded and Nazi meetings took place in this organization. Many things were decided about the fate of Jews during these meetings.

  • Hitler Claims Emergency Powers

    Said that the people in government were unfit. Took over from chancellor and gained even more power to rule Germany. Started to get rid of unwanted people.

  • Hitler becomes chancellor

    Became chancellor in 1934. Gained a lot of power. Started influencing others in a negative way and made it possible for the genocide of Jews and killings of many other groups.

  • Boycott of Jewish Businesses

    March 1933. Abandonment of Jewish goods and services. Less money coming in for Jews made it harder to live.

  • Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases

    Hitler wanted to get rid of anybody that was mentally or physically handicapped. He saw them as less valuable to the country and thought that they were worthless so he wanted to exterminate them. If you identified in one of the groups there was nothing you could do to save your life.

  • Nuremberg Laws

    Jews weren't allowed to marry outside of their race. This made it impossible for Jews to have freedom or do what they wanted before they were being killed.

  • Nazi’s Occupy Rhineland

    Hitler sent Nazi troops into the Rhineland which was an area that wasn’t undermuch control. The Nazi’s took over this area and treated the people in the area poorly if they weren’t deemed good by the Nazis.

  • Kristallnacht/The Night of Broken Glass

    A night when Nazis attacked Jews and their businesses. Hurt Jews and was one of the first events in the start of the Holocaust.

  • Germany invades Poland

    The very beginning of WW2. Hitler decided to take over Poland and was successful in doing so. Poland was now under Nazi rule and captured many people in Poland that didn’t want to do exactly as nazis wanted.

  • St. Louis Ship (with Jews)

    A ship carrying jews to Germany. The captain tried to find a country to take them in but couldn’t

  • Madagascar Plan presented

    Idea presented by Nazis to relocate Jews to the island of madagascar. If this happened there could be a large jewish population on the island and many things about the Holocaust and how Jews were treated could of changed.

  • Auschwitz opens

    May, 1940. Jewish concentration camp. Affects Jews and anybody put into the camps because they would most likely die and if they didn’t they would be put through horrible conditions

  • Einsatzgruppen, starts

    A violent group created by Hitler. THey were to combat suspected enemies of the Nazis. Helped with killing thousands of people that went against Hitler.

  • The Commissar Order

    An order made by German officials about treatment of Jews.

  • Yellow Star for German Jews

    Jews were forced to wear stars to show that they were Jewish. MAny people treated them poorly because they could easily tell they weren’t purley German.

  • Babi Yar

    September 29, 1941. Germans kill about 34,000 jews in the span of one week. Many people died and were tortured.

  • Lodz Ghetto Opens

    A place Jews were forced to live because Nazis didn’t want them interacting with other German citizens. Jews couldn’t leave the area or they would be killed.

  • Wannsee Conference

    Meeting to discuss the final solution Hitler wanted for the Jews. This determined the rest of the fate for Jews during the Holocaust.

  • Himmler Orders Liquidation of ghettos

    Ghettos are abolished. Jews are no longer forced to live in specific areas.

  • Creation of the Zigeunerlager

    People that were in the gypsy subgroup were put into the camp. Nazi Germany affected more than just jews although they were the majority affected.

  • Himmler Orders Destruction of Auschwitz

    He ordered the destruction of the camp when it was obvious the Nazis were going to lose. The Nazis wanted to get rid of the horrific evidence of anything bad that went on during the Holocaust. Meant no more Jews could be tortured in the camp and also destroyed evidence so it didn’t seem as bad as it was.

  • Last Gassing at Auschwitz

    The last group of Jews were gassed at Auschwitz. The Nazis that ran the camp had their last selection of who they wanted to kill. This was probably one of the most traumatizing attacks on the Jews due to Jews thinking they would be free soon but then they get killed.

  • Dr Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz

    Conducted inhumane experiments on prisoners in Auschwitz. This put anybody in the camp through even more pain than they were in before.

  • Liberation of Auschwitz

    Soviet Army freed over 7,000 prisoners that were left in the camp. Most of them were dying from unhealthy living conditions. At last finally Jews were freed.

  • Hitler Commits Suicide

    Hitler commited suicide in 1945. He did this because he knew he would be captured and most likely be tortured. His death made it possible for those in Germany that he tortured to start living a better life.

  • International Military Tribunal

    Trial for Nazi German leaders. It was to make sure they would have repercussions for hurting so many. Could put whoever they hurt in a more peaceful state of mind knowing they cannot hurt them ever again.

  • Adolf Eichmann captured

    May, 1960. Eichmann was brought to Israel for trial. He impacted the Jews by forcing them into ghettos.

  • Dr Josef Mengele Dies

    Died after the war while swimming in Brazil. Was no longer a doctor by the time he died. He hurt a lot of people while alive his death insured he could never hurt anyone again.