Holocaust Timeline

By delaneymelana

  • Schutzstaffel Organized

    The Schutzstaffel was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. This affected the slaves of the holocaust because these were the people controlling them.

  • Boycott of Jewish Buisnesses

    The Boycott of Jewish Businesses claimed to be a defensive reaction to the Jewish boycott of German goods. This impacted the Nazi Party because it was something they really cared about.

  • Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals

    The new law allows courts to order the indefinite imprisonment of “habitual criminals” if they deem the person dangerous to society. This impacted the minorities because people are gonna use this new law against them.

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor

    Hitler's rise to power began when he joined the political party. This impacted Jewish people and minorities because those are people that he wanted executed.

  • Hitler Claims Emergency Powers

    Hitler claiming emergency powers gave his all power, and a follow up law took away rights from the states and gave it to the government. This helped him and the Nazi's rise to power, and allowed them to make sure no one was against their ideas.

  • Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases

    This law forced the sterilization of any person with a Hereditary disease. Anyone with a mental illness was killed, there was around 300,000 to 400,000 people killed.

  • Nuremberg Laws

    The Nuremberg Laws were anti semitic and racist laws in Nazi Germany. This impacted the Jewish because it forbid the marriage between German and Jewish people.

  • Nazi’s Occupy Rhineland

    The Nazi would enter Rhineland with 32,000 men, by doing so he violated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treaty because the area was a demilitarized zone. France and Great Britain did nothing about this, so Germany continued to take over more land.

  • Reichszentrale is created

    Reichszentrale was a sign of bringing back the persecution of homosexuals, and possibly punishing them. Around 41,000 homosexuals had data gathered on them, and were suspected and/or convicted.

  • Kristallnacht/The Night of Broken Glass

    Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, was a pogrom against Jews carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany. This impacted the Jewish because that's who these people were against.

  • St. Louis Ship (with Jews)

    St. Louis' ship carried 900 Jews who were trying to escape Nazi Germany. The ships would be sent back to Europe, later to have almost 300 Jews killed.

  • Germany invades Poland

    The invasion of Poland marked the beginning of WW2 when Germany invades Poland. The Germans won the war, splitting the land between themselves, the Soviet Union, and the Slovaks.

  • Madagascar Plan presented

    The Nazi government launched an audacious plan to exile European Jews to the island of Madagascar. This affected both the ¨army¨ and the victims of the camp because it would force all of them to relocate.

  • Auschwitz opens

    The Concentration camp called Auschwitz was opened. This impacts the victims (Jewish and Minorities). This impacted them because they were being enslaved and killed.

  • Lodz Ghetto Opens

    Lodz Ghetto was a place where about 160,000 Jews, and more than a third of the city's population, were forced into a small area. this impacted the Jews because they were forced to move here, and the cities around them.

  • Einsatzgruppen, starts

    The Einsatzgruppen were units of the Security Police and SD (the SS intelligence service) that followed the German army as it invaded countries in Europe. This impacted the German army because those were the people they were following.

  • The Commissar Order

    The commision order stated that and Soviet commissioners who were captured and identified were to be executed. This affected Soviet commissioners because if they were to be found, they would have been executed.

  • Yellow Star for German Jews

    Yellow badges are badges that Jews were ordered to wear in public during certain periods. This affected the Jews because those were the people that had to wear them.

  • Babi Yar

    Babi Yar was the massacre of thousands of Jews when Germany invaded the Soviet Union during WW2. The Jews were harshly impacted, with around 34,000 people killed.

  • Wannsee Conference

    This conference was a meeting between the senior government to talk about the "Final solution" of the Jews. They announced that 11 million Jews would be killed by the "Final Solution".

  • Creation of the Zigeunerlager

    Zigeunerlager was a Gypsy camp where all remaining Sinti and Roma (Gypsies) from Jewish ghettos were sent. Around 21 thousand Gypsies were registered into the camps, while 1,700 were killed before being registered.

  • Himmler Orders Liquidation of ghettos

    Himmler orders a liquidation of Jews and the remaining who can work must be sent to a concentration camp. Jews were either being killed, or sent to labor camps and forced to work.

  • Himmler Orders Destruction of Auschwitz

    SS chief Heinrich Himmler orders the destruction of the Auschwitz gas chambers and crematoria. This impacted the victims of the Auschwitz because that means that they will no longer be killed by the gas chambers.

  • Last Gassing at Auschwitz

    In Auschwitz, all remaining Jews were to be killed in the gas chambers one final time. Around 320,000 Jews were immediately killed, while 110,000 we sent to work.

  • Dr Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz

    A German Officer named Josef Mengele arrived at the concentration camp. The victims of the camp were impacted because Josef would perform deadly experiments on prisoners.

  • Hitler Commits Suicide

    Adolf hitler commits suicide in his underground bunker. This impacted his army because they followed what he said.

  • Liberation of Auschwitz

    The Soviet army entered Auschwitz and liberated more than 7,000 remaining prisoners, who were mostly ill and dying. This impacted the victims of the camp in a good way because they got to show freedom.

  • International Military Tribunal

    Held in Nuremberg, Germany held trials after WW2 on war crimes, crimes against humanity, etc. During these trials, Germany tried 24 Nazi war criminals and 6 groups.

  • Adolf Eichmann captured

    Adolf Eichmann was executed in 1962 because he was captured by the Mossad and found guilty of organizing Hitler's "Final Solution". The Jews who were killed in the "Final Solution" get justice when he is executed while the Nazis lose one of their officers.

  • Dr Josef Mengele Dies

    Dr Josef Mengele was a physician for Auschwitz, he died due to a stroke while swimming. Mengele performed on many prisoners, inhumanly selecting and testing on Jews and Gypsies.