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Holocaust timeline

  • Schutzstaffel Organized

    A major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany.
  • Hitler becomes Chancellor

    Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party.
  • Hitler Claims Emergency Powers

    The Enabling Act gave Hitler plenary powers and followed on the heels of the Reichstag Fire Decree, which had abolished most civil liberties and transferred state powers to the Reich government.
  • Boycott of Jewish Businesses

    When the German community started to stop going to Jewish owned businesses because they were lead to believe that the Jews were the reason they lost WWl
  • Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases

    The forced sterilization of certain individuals with physical and mental disabilities.
  • Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals

    They were the two laws for protection of German blood, and German honour, which forbade marriage and intercourse.
  • Nazi’s Occupy Rhineland

    The remilitarisation of the Rhineland by the german army.
  • Germany invades Poland

    About 1.5 million german troops invaded Poland that day and they invaded it all along the 1,750 mile border with German controlled territory
  • Einsatzgruppen, starts

    The Einsatzgruppen was a group that followed the German Nazis around while the Nazi took over Europe and they were also known as the Mobile Killing Squad because they had a big role in the Holocaust by Bullets
  • Reichszentrale is created

    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.
  • Kristallnacht/The Night of Broken Glass

    It was a pogrom against Jews carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938.
  • St. Louis Ship (with Jews)

    The Motorschiff St. Louis was a German ocean liner infamously known for carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany .
  • Yellow Star for German Jews

    They are badges that Jews were ordered to wear in public during certain periods by the ruling Christians and Muslims.
  • Lodz Ghetto Opens

    A Nazi ghetto established by the German authorities for Polish Jews and Roma following the Invasion of Poland.
  • Madagascar Plan presented

    A proposal by the Nazi German government to forcibly relocate the Jewish population of Europe to the island of Madagascar.
  • Auschwitz opens

    Auschwitz was a major place were Jews and other people were hel during the Holocaust
  • The Commissar Order

    It was an order issued by the German High Command.
  • Babi Yar

    Babi Yar was a massacre that killed 34,000 Jewish men, women, and Children
  • Wannsee Conference

    A meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel leaders.
  • Last Gassing at Auschwitz

    People who had been forced to dig up and burn the remains of that camp's mass graves.
  • Himmler Orders Liquidation of ghettos

    Himmler sent his SS forces into Liquidate the Warsaw ghettos with heavy artillery and the small force at the ghettos were able to fight back for about a month
  • Creation of the Zigeunerlager

    Was an operation in Auschwitz that would bring in Roma and Sinti
  • Himmler Orders Destruction of Auschwitz

    When the Soviet army was getting closer to Auschwitz, one of Hitler's Officers ordered the destruction of all the gas chambers and crematoria
  • Dr Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz

    When the Red Troop army arrived at Auschwitz and it was just ten days before the Soviet army arrived
  • Liberation of Auschwitz

    A Nazi concentration camp where more than a million people were murdered.
  • Hitler Commits Suicide

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

    the chief prosecutors of the IMT had read the indictments against 24 leading Nazi officials
  • Nuremberg Laws

    The Nuremberg Laws were antisemitic and racist laws in Nazi Germany.
  • Adolf Eichmann captured

    Adolf Eichmann was a German and he was one of the major holocaust organizers
  • Dr Josef Mengele Dies

    He died from a Stroke when he was swimming in Brazil