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founding of Nazi Party
this party was led by Anton Drexler and previously named german workers party.but later taken over by Adolf Hitler and named the NSDAP.This group of people started out small and then grew national and with hitlers power no one could stop him. -
The Reichstag Fire Decree
This permitted suspension of basic civil rights. Which were rights that were given by the Weimar Constitution. This also did not guarantee germans any rights. -
Enabling Law
The German parliament transferred legislative power to Hitler's cabinet and thus lost it's reason for being. By the end of July the Nazi party was the only political party left Germany. The other parties had been outlawed by the government or had dissolved themselves. -
Law for Restoration of Professional Civil Services
It was the first act of Jewish discrimination. It didnt let jewish employees serve in state service. It was the beginning of the idea of excluding jews from professions, schools, organizations, and other aspects of public life. -
Civil service law
germans began to take away jewish people from the government. the nazi also abolished trade unions. workers and employees were also forced to work in the German Labor Front. -
Excluded from State
April 7, 1933 according to wich jewish and politically unreliable civil servants and employees were to be excluded from state service -
Restrictions of the Jews
German law restricted the number of Jewish students at german schools and universities -
Nazi leaders take control
Nazi leaders assumed that they had the power to persecute german jews in the years hilter was in power. (1933- 1939) -
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U.S engages in rescue
The U.S alone repatriationed over 1,000 unaccompanied jewish refugee children between 1934 and 1942. -
SS independence
The ss gained its independwence from the sa. -
SS union concentration camps
After December 1934 SS became the only agency authorized to establish, or manage concentration camps -
Hilter Writes Mein Kampf
Hitler's book, Mein Kampf, which means My Struggle, called for the removal of Jews from Germany. -
Night of Broken Glass
On the night of November 9, 1938 german soldiers destroyed synagouges and destroyed stores owned by jews throughout Germany and Ausria. This event is called the night of broken glass. it marked the era of destruction. -
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How Different Religous Backgrounds Helped Jews
A lot of different religons helped Jews during the Holocaust. They gave them places to hide, like in hidden places. Some churches, orphanages, and families helped hide Jews during the war. -
Forms of Non-violent Resistance
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Forms of Non-violent Resistance
People also contributed in non- violent resistance in this time. It included sheltering Jews even at the risk of death. Also by listening to forbibben allid radio broadcast, and producing clandestine anti-Nazi newspaper. -
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Polish citizens deported
In 1939-45 1.5 million Polish citizens were deported to German Territory to do work labor. -
Bialystok
Bialystok is a city in Poland that was assigned to the Soviet zone of occupation. -
World War Two Expands Concentration Camps
When the Germans invade Poland starting World War Two it causes a need for more concentration camps. Gremany now has more enemys they need to contain including war prisioners and even more jews. With more concentration camps this lead to the expansion of the SS project's which prisioners were forced to work on. -
First Ghetto was established
First Ghetto was in Poland in Piotrkow Trybunalski in October 1939. -
Euthanasia Gassings
Funcuntionaries began to take the mentally ill patients to gassing stations. -
Jewish Killings
In 1941, the Nazi killed jewish men, women and children with the consideration of age or gender. -
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Racist policy
German Security collaborated a racist policy -
"Final Solution"
Planned to murder European Jews -
Invasion of Soviet union
In June 1941, the Einsatzgruppen followed Germans as they grew deep into the Soviet Territory. Einsatzgruppen planned mass-murder operations. They later transported Jews to killing centers. -
Pause on the Euthanasia program
Hitler stopped the Euthanasia program, but he didn't plan to end it. -
Kiev Jew Massacre
In September 1941, units of einsatzgruppen killed 33,771 Kiev Jews in the ravine at Babi Yar. -
Operation Reinhard
Operation Reinhard became the codename for an operation to kill approximately 2 mill jews. -
Majdanek
They refered to this as the sixth killing center. Because it was mostly soviet prisoner of war. They were virtually all dead by 1942, they also practiced scientific methods on prisoners. -
Chlemno
This was the first killing center. It was mostly jews, but also gypsies, and they were killed by being gased. -
Warsaw
A response of deportation they rose in arms and defeated and took down the warsaw killing center. -
Bielski Partisan
They were the most succesful jewish resistance to fight the German Nazi army. -
Warning of nazi plans
In 1942, the american state department recieved a cable revealing plans for the mass murder of european jews. despite this, the state department did absolutely nothing. -
Euthiasia Project continues!
In August 1942 the Euthiasia children project continued to kill disabled children but more carfully then before. -
United States involement in WWII
The United States recieved word about the Nazi plans to murder the Jews. But during WWII, rescuing the Jews from the concentration and death camps wasnt their top priority. The British were also informed of the events but also did not send help. Both countries failed to announce the news publicly. -
Aliies prosecute war criminals
The allies decide to prosecute all of the Nazi and other forces leaders. They were prosecuting because of the mass genocide of Jews and other religious parties and races. They prosecuted over 22 "War criminals" obver a period of a year. -
Auschwitz
This was the largest killing center, and it had 4 gas chambers. Six thousand jews were gased each day. -
Jewish Uprising
Jews in the Warsaw ghetto uprose in an armed revolt against German soldiers. The Jews attacked the Germans with Molotov cocktails, and hand grenades. The Germans were able to stop the fighting within a few days. -
Americans Meet with Britain
US and British troops meet in Bermuda to come up with solutions to refugee problems. Roosevelt creates the War Refugee Board, which sets up the Ontario Refugee Center in New York. -
Martial Law Placed by German Authorities
German occupation authorities imposed martial law on Denmark in response to increasing acts of resistance and sabotage. -
Moscow Declaration
The Moscow Declaration was signed by the foreign secretaries of the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union. The Moscow Declaration stated that at the time a guilty person was found responsible for war crimes he or she would be sent back to the countries in which the crimes had been committed and judged according to the laws of the nation that was concerned. -
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how jews died during death marches
Most of the Jews that were forced into the death marches died of one of three things. one was starvation or lack of nutrition. another was exhaustion. the last was when german officers -
Reasons for Death Marches
The death marches began because the Germans realized the Allied soldiers were getting close to defeating them and they didn't want their Jewish prisoners to be freed. So, they started marching their prisoners to camps closer to Germany and killed them along the way. -
Purposes of the Evacuations of Concentrtation Camps
SS authorities did not want prisoners to fall into enemy hands alive to tell their stories to Allied and Soviet liberators.
SS thought they needed prisoners to maintain production of armaments wherever possible.
Some SS leaders, including Himmler, believed irrationally that they could use Jewish concentration camp prisoners as hostages to bargain for a separate peace in the west that would guarantee the survival of the Nazi regime. -
Attempt Assassination Hitler
a coalition of these groups made an unsucessful attempt on the assissination of Hitler -
First camp discovered
Soviets were the first to approach a major concentration camp, Majdanek in Poland. The Nazis tried to hide all of the evidence of death and murder at the camp by setting the camp on fire, but in their haste they left the gas chambers standing. -
Fascist Arrow Cross
Few weeks after the leaders of the fascist arrow cross movement seized power in a German-sponsered coup, the arrow cross government formally established a ghetto in Budapast which about 63,000 jews lived in. -
Rescuing of the Jews- World War 2
After World War 2, the Jewish population need help. When the war ended in 1945 many countries were involved in helping. It was tough, and took a long time to relieve anyone with the Jewish religion, but still not all of the survivors of the world could be saved. -
Liberation Of Auschwitz
The Soviets liberated Auschwitz, the largest extermination and concentration camp, in January 1945. The Nazis had forced the majority of Auschwitz prisoners to march westward , and Soviet soldiers found only several thousand starving prisoners when they arrived at the camp. They found bodies of thousands of innocent people that the Nazi's murdered. They also found thousands of women and men clothing and more than one thousand pounds of women's hair in bags.. -
U.S. liberated Buchenwald
The U.S liberated the Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald. A few days after Nazi forces evacuated, forcing the Jews to go on death marches. -
Allied Control Council Law No. 10
This law allowed German courts to convict people for crimes committed during war time. They could try Germans who committed crimes against another German or a stateless person. Because of this law, many trials where the victim and perpetrator were both from Germany were left to the newly formed German Tribunals. -
U.S. Organizations
Throughout and after the war several countries helped rescue the survivors, including the U.S. Some U.S. based organizations like the "American Friends Committee," and the "Unitarias," helped throughout the war as well. These groups helped in many countries including France, Portugal, and Spain. They saved about 1,000 refugees.
