Holocaust timeline

  • Schutzstaffel Organized

    This was a military organization that enforced security. This effected Germany because there was now an organization to suppress the people.
  • Schutzstaffel Organized

    A military organization that enforced security. There was now
    an organization to suppress people.
  • Hitler becomes Chancellor

    Political conflict with the communists lead Von Hindenburg to elect Hitler as Chancellor to avoid to avoid conflict with the Nazis.
  • Hitler claims emergency powers

    Hitler now had full power of Germany. This allowed
    Hitler to effectively prosecute anyone.
  • The start of the boycott on Jewish Businesses

    Germans attempted to intimidate and stop Jews from owning business. This was beginning of seperation of Jews from society.
  • Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases

    This law made it so that people with certain disabilities had to be sterilized, This gave the state more power of their minoritys.
  • Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals

    Allows Germany to indefinitely imprison Habitual Criminals.
  • Nuremberg Laws

    These are laws that deprived Jews of many rights. This began
    dehumanizing the Jewish population.
  • Nazi’s Occupy Rhineland

    The Rhineland was a demilitarized zone in western Germany. The Germans marched troops into it to violate the treaty of Versailles and
    see what the allies would do.
  • Reichs Zentrale is created

    A document signed in to collect information on the homosexuals of
    Germany and track them. Germany now knew who was homosexual and could kill them with a swift move whenever they wanted to.
  • Kristallnacht/The Night of Broken Glass

    As result of an assassination of a German official, Jews, synagogues, and the Jewsbusinesses were attacked.
  • Yellow Star for German Jews

    The Germans started suggesting that Jews wear badges to identify
    themselves in late 1938, however made it mandatory after the invasion of Poland.
  • St. Louis Ship (with Jews)

    This was a ship that attempted to save Jewish refugees by sending
    them to safer nations. It tried to help many however was stopped in its tracks once by when America denied the entry of 900 Jews into the country.
  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany sparked the start of ww2 through their aggretions. They also ended up killing millions in Poland
  • Einsatzgruppen, starts

    This was a mobile killing squad that secured invaded land, and killed enemies of the state. Polish, Soviet, and any other invaded peoples were slaughtered by this group if they were deemed unfit or mainly if they were jews.
  • Lodz Ghetto Opens

    Jews were forced into a small space to do forced labour for the German industry. Around 130k Jews lost their freedoms and
    became slaves to Germany.
  • Auschwitz opens

    Nazi's largest death camp opens.It starts as a prison camp, however, becomes more and more brutal every year.
  • Madagascar Plan presented

    Plan to exile Jews to Madagascar. Would have caused mass deportation of jews.
  • The Commissar Order

    An order to kill all Political commissars. Germans began
    killing political leaders in the Military to break down the Soviet Union.
  • Babi Yar

    The murder of at least 34,000 Jews in one week. Was beginning of German Murders. The world did not see the full extent until much later.
  • Wannsee Conference

    This was a meeting where the Germans came together and discussed the location of the concentration camps and how they would happen.
  • Creation of the Zigeunerlager

    Gypsies were deported to Zigeunerlager. This marked the beginning
    of extermination of Gypsies.
  • Dr Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz

    After wounded in the eastern front he volunteered to go to the concentration camp. He impacted the lives of many Jews with his
    horrific experiments
  • Himmler Orders Liquidation of ghettos

    Himmler orders mass movement of jews to concentration
    camps. This was when Jews began being massively executed.
  • Last Gassing at Auschwitz

    The last people in the camp were forced to dig up the mass graves
    and burn the bodies to hide the crimes.Then they were gased.
  • Himmler Orders Destruction of Auschwitz

    In order to hide what was done Himmler ordered for a full demolition of the concentration camps. This led to the liberation of many Jews
    however, in the chaosmany other Jews were sent on death marches.
    or gased.
  • Liberation of Auschwitz

    Ukrainian forces free prisoners of Auschwitz. This freed people from the
    largest Nazi Death camp, symbolized the end of suppression from Nazis
  • Hitler Commits Suicide

    As Germany was falling he ran to his bunker and took cyanide then shot himself in the head.
  • International Military Tribunal

    Trials to prosecute Nazis begin. Nazis can finaly pay for their crimes against humanity.
  • Adolf Eichmann captured

    He was a man who commited many warcrimes and helped the Holocaust. He was then finally Being Punished for war crimes after all of these years.
  • Dr Josef Mengele Dies

    Josef Mengele died by stroke. His death shows that he was never
    brought to justice for his crimes.