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Schutzstaffel Organized
paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany -
Last Gassing at Auschwitz
The last large scale gassing. -
Hitler becomes Chancellor
President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler as Chancellor. -
Hitler Claims Emergency Powers
The Enabling Act gave Hitler temporay powers -
Boycott of Jewish Businesses
The nazis started to boycott jewish businesses. -
Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases
the forced sterilization of certain people with physical and mental disabilities. -
Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals
This law allows courts to imprison people who they think are of “habitual criminals” meaning dangerous to society -
Nuremberg Laws
Laws created to take away some rights and things that Jews have/do. -
Nazi’s Occupy Rhineland
German troops marched into the Rhineland and occupied it. -
Reichszentrale is created
The Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion was made in Nazi Germany for the fight against homosexuality and abortion. -
Kristallnacht/The Night of Broken Glass
Some 30,000 men were arrested and sent to Naz concentration camps. -
St. Louis Ship (with Jews)
Carried 900 jewish refugees intending to escape anti-semitic persecution. -
St. Louis Ship (with Jews)
A boat carrying around 900 Jewish refugees tried to land in Havana,Cuba but were turned down.Only 28 immigrants were admitted into Cuba. -
Germany invades Poland
Hitler wants to ultimately rule Poland - regain lost territory. -
Lodz Ghetto Opens
Nazi ghetto opened by German authorities for Polish jews and Roma. -
Auschwitz opens
THis camp took nearly two years to opne up, and more than 1.1 million people died in the camp. No specific opening date could be found. -
Einsatzgruppen starts
Groups of nazis whose whole purpose was to kill. -
The Commisair Order
It was issued by high German command, and that any prisoner who could be identified as "thoroughly bolshevized or as active representatives of the Bolshevist ideology" would be killed. -
Yellow Star for German Jews
It became required for any Jew to wear a star of david on themselves to show others that they are Jewish. -
Babi Yar
The killing of nearly 34,000 Jewish people in Ukraine. -
Wannsee Conference
The meeting of senior nazi government officals. -
Creation of the Zigeunerlager
When all of the Sinti and Roma were ordered to go to concentration camps. -
Dr Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz
He was a Nazi doctor at Auschwitz camp who selected prisoners for execution in gas chambers and led infamous medical experiments, most commonly known for the twin experiment. -
Himmler Orders Liquidation of ghettos
He ordered remaining Jewish people in the ghettos to go to concentration camps -
Himmler Orders Destruction of Auschwitz
As rival armys aproached, the nazis tried to get rid of the gas chambers. Priosners were forced to blow up the chambers -
Liberation of Auschwitz
On this day, a camp where nearly 1.1 million people were murded, the people inside where set free. -
Hitler Commits Suicide
Hitler commits suicide in his underground bunker with cyanide and a gun. -
International Military Tribunal
In Nuremberg, Germany, a trial begins with major Nazi leaders who are charged with crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and conspiracy to commit each of these crimes.