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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.