Holocaust Timeline

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  • Schutzstaffel Organized

    The Schutzstaffel was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II. It began with a small guard unit known as the Saal-Schutz made up of NSDAP volunteers to provide security for party meetings in Munich.

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor

    Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany

  • Boycott of Jewish Businesses

  • Hitler Claims Emergency Powers

  • Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases

    The German Reich (Nazi) government passes "Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases". The purpose of this legislation is the forced sterilization of those deemed to have a "hereditary disease".

  • Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals

    Under the Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals, habitual criminals were forced to undergo sterilization

  • Nuremberg Laws

    The Nuremberg Laws were antisemitic and racist laws in Nazi Germany. They were enacted by the Reichstag on 15 September 1935, at a special meeting convened during the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party.

  • Nazi’s Occupy Rhineland

    The Nazis occupy the Rhineland, The place between France and Germany that was supposed to be demilitarized.

  • Reichszentrale is created

  • The night of broken glass

    Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November Pogrom, was a pogrom against Jews carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938. The German authorities looked on without intervening.

  • Yellow Star for German Jews

    German Jews are now forced to wear yellow stars of David so that they can be told apart

  • Einsatzgruppen starts

    Einsatzgruppen were Schutzstaffel paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass killings, primarily by shooting, during World War II in German-occupied Europe.

  • St. Louis Ship (with Jews)

    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. The refugees tried to disembark in Cuba but were denied permission to land.

  • Germany invades Poland

  • Lodz Ghetto Opens

    The Łódź Ghetto or Litzmannstadt Ghetto was a Nazi ghetto established by the German authorities for Polish Jews and Roma following the Invasion of Poland. It was the second-largest ghetto in all of German-occupied Europe after the Warsaw Ghetto.

  • Madagascar Plan presented

    The Madagascar Plan was a proposal by the Nazi German government to forcibly relocate the Jewish population of Europe to the island of Madagascar. Franz Rademacher, head of the Jewish Department of the German Foreign Office, proposed the idea in June 1940, shortly before the Fall of France.

  • Auschwitz opens

  • 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. The first, and best documented, of the massacres took place on 29–30 September 1941, killing approximately 33,771 Jews.

  • Last gassing in Aushwitz

  • 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.

  • The Commission Order

  • Creation of the Zigeunerlager

    The Gypsy family camp was a section of the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp where Romani families deported to the camp were held together, instead of being separated as was typical at Auschwitz.

  • 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. A few ghettos were re-designated as concentration camps and existed until 1944.

  • Dr. Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz

  • Himmler Orders Destruction of Auschwitz

  • Liberation of Auschwitz

  • Hitler Commits Suicide

  • International Military Tribunal

    The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), also known as the Tokyo Trial or the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal, was a military trial convened on April 29, 1946, to try the leaders of the Empire of Japan for joint conspiracy to start and wage war (categorized as "Class A" crimes), conventional war crimes.

  • Adolf Eichmann captured In Argentina

  • Dr. Josef Mengele Dies