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Schutzstaffel Organized
A big paramilitary organization ruled by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis in Germany. Started as a unit called as the Saal-Schutz. This impacted Germany because there is an uprising against the current government. -
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End of Holocaust
This is the end of a mass genocide and following after were the Nuremberg Trials. This impacts everyone in the world because there is no longer a mass genocide and other countries will learn from Germany's mistakes. -
Hitler becomes Chancellor
Hitler was given immediate power to take care of Communist violence. He eventually made himself dictator. This affects the world. -
Hitler Claims Emergency Powers
The Enabling Act gave Hitler absolute powers which followed a law that had abolished most civil liberties and transferred state powers to the Reich government. The combined effect of the two laws acted as a catalyst to transform Hitler's government into a legal dictatorship. This impacts the whole German population. -
Boycott of Jewish Businesses
Hitler ordered the Nazis and others to avoid purchasing goods from shops owned by Jewish families. This affects Jewish families because they have no way to make money. -
Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases
The German government passes the “Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases”. This new law provides a basis for the involuntary sterilization of people with physical and mental disabilities or mental illness. This took the Hitler forward in assimilating and affected all people born with deficits. -
Law Against Dangerous Habitual Criminals
Law passed by the German government, if a person is dangerous to a society court can order an unspecified release date of these people. This affects the dangerous people because they don't know what the future holds. -
Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg Laws were antisemitic and racist laws in Nazi Germany, enacted by Nazi government. This impacted everyone in Germany, it made white people with blue eyes and blonde hair feel superior and the others feel superior. -
Nazis Occupy Rhineland
German military forces into the Rhineland, a place along the Rhine River in western Germany. Later Rhineland was demilitarized because it was insignificant. This effects the military because they went to rhineland for no significant reason, it wasted their time. -
Reichszentrale is Created
The Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion was the epicenter of Nazi Germany for the fight against homosexuality and abortion. This affected homosexuals and people seeking an abortion. -
Kristallnacht/The Night of Broken Glass
Nazis in Germany torched synagogues where Jews went for religious worship, they vandalized the homes of Jewish people, Jewish schools and Jewish businesses and killed almost 100 Jewish civilians. This affected Jews because it showed Hitler's power over them and many were killed. -
St. Louis Ship (with Jews)
The Saint Louis ship carried more than 900 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in attempt to escape anti-Semitic persecution. This impacted the Jews, who were given hope, and the US and Cuba, who denied it. -
Germany Invades Poland
The invasion of Poland, marked the beginning of World War II. The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union, and one day after the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union had approved the pact. This affects Polish people because they were kicked out of their homes. -
Lodz Ghetto Opens
The Lodz Ghetto was a Nazi ghetto established by the German authorities for Polish Jews and Roma. This ghetto isolated the Jews from the rest of the Polish population. This cut the Jews off from the real world. -
Auschwitz Opens
A concentration camp run by the Nazis. Jews were shipped to Auschwitz to eventually be killed. One of the most well known concentration camps, this made Hitler's plan for the 'Final Solution" seem easy because many Jews were murdered here. This effected Jews, the start of mass genocide. -
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. This impacts Jews because it accentuates Nazi hate for Jews and really puts the isolation aspect in action. -
The Commisair Order
To the Germans, commissars were the true "pillars of opposition." For that reason, German soldiers were ordered to shoot any political commissars who were taken prisoners. This emphasized Nazi's degree of hate towards communism. By doing this, Nazi's feel superior. This impacted communists because Nazis killed anyone who represented that. -
Yellow Star for German Jews
This was a policy enacted by the German government which forced Jews to wear distinguished badges that only dehumanized and isolated them. This policy affected all Jews and made them feel less than human and was a landmark in religious discrimination. -
Babi Yar
A ravine in the Ukrainian capital where a massacre between German forces and the Soviet Union took place. This impacted the Russian population- 34,000 Jewish casualties. -
Einsatzgruppen Starts
The Einsatzgruppen (task forces, special action groups) were units of the Security Police and SD (the SS intelligence service) that followed the German army as it invaded and occupied countries. This affects all countries and citizens of the countries that Germany invades- these task forces are like a second military. -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of high level Nazi government officials and Schutzstaffel leaders, who convened in a Berlin suburb to discuss and implement the "Final Solution of Jewish Question". This decision impacts the Jews. -
Creation of the Zigeunerlager
The Gypsy family camp was a section of the Auschwitz concentration camp where Romani families deported to the camp were held together. This affect the Gypsies. -
Himmler Orders Liquidation of ghettos
Himmler issued an order to liquidate all ghettos and transfer remaining Jewish inhabitants to concentration camps. This affects the Jews in the ghettos because now they don't have the opportunity to stall their death. -
Last Gassing at Auschwitz
The last inmates gassed in Auschwitz were 300–400 members of the who had been forced to dig up and burn the remains of that camp's mass graves. These people are probably the most remembered since their lives were taken last. -
Himmler Orders Destruction of Auschwitz
As Soviet forces continue to approach, chief Heinrich Himmler orders the destruction of the Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chambers. This impacts inmates at Auschwitz. -
Dr. Josef Mengele Arrives at Auschwitz
The physician Josef Mengele was a prominent Nazi doctor who conducted inhumane medical experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz. In addition to all of the slave work and their treatment, now people in Auschwitz have to fear immediate death and dysfunctions. -
Liberation of Auschwitz
On January 27, 1945, the Soviet army entered Auschwitz and liberated more than 7,000 remaining prisoners, who were mostly ill and dying. This impacted mostly the Jews because they have some feel of freedom. -
Hitler Commits Suicide
Holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. This provides relief for all of the minority groups and inferior races because there is no longer a leader of the Nazis. -
International Military Tribunal
The International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, begins a trial of 21 major Nazi German leaders on charges of crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and conspiracy to commit each of these crimes. This affects the inferior races because this is a way of them feeling liberated- some authoritative power is finally on their side. -
Dr. Josef Mengele Dies
While visiting his friends in Bertioga, Mengele suffered another stroke while swimming and drowned. This didn't really impact anyone.