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Schutzstaffel Organized
The Schutzstaffel, or better known as the SS, were soldiers that were appointed by Germany's Leader, Hitler. They were appointed to be personal bodyguards for Hitler, but later did his dirty work of killing millions of people.This, at first, affected nobody, but later went on to affect all the groups of people Hitler despised. -
Boycott of Jewish Businesses
As jewish business struggle and begin to shut down, Germans would come a buy these businesses for less of what they are worth, and they would most times thrive. This affected the Jews just because this made them financially unstable if they wanted to leave. -
Hitler becomes Chancellor
Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany after taking lead of the Nazi Party. This mainly affect the whole future of Germany as thus it led to the future World War 2, and the Holocaust (which also affected all the Jewish people.) -
Hitler Claims Emergency Powers
Hitler passed the Enabling Act, and the only people who opposed this were the Social Democrats. When Hitler had gained full parliament, this put the blame on the social Democrats, and affected them because he blamed them for betraying their country. -
Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases
This law was passed and gave authorities the power to kill anyone with diseases from heredity, such as mental illnesses. The affected everyone with diseases in Germany as they were wiped off the face of the earth. -
Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals
The German government passes a “Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals.” The new law allows courts to order the indefinite imprisonment of “habitual criminals” if they deem the person dangerous to society. This gave the Nazi's the authority to take anyone they deemed dangerous into custody, affecting all of the people in Germany. -
Creation of the Zigeunerlager
The Sinti and the Roma were placed into municipal camps and forced into labor. This affected the Sinti and the Roma. The Gypsy camps, or the Zigeunerlager, were located on the outskirts of towns. -
Nuremberg Laws
Laws that restricted the Jews from marrying, business, medical, or legal issues with Germans, restricted. This mainly affected the Jews because they were cast out from Germany’s society and they were restricted. -
Nazi’s Occupy Rhineland
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany. This was the leading events that started World War 2, and forced many people into war to die. -
Reichszentrale is created
This was created by SS Heinrich Himmler, allowing the Nazi's to persecute and elimate homosexuals in Germany. This affected all Homosexuals because the would have to pay for who they loved, and were risking their life. -
Kristallnacht/The Night of Broken Glass
Burning down Senegals, making the Jews pay to clean up the mess. This affected the Jews because they had to live without religion, and pay for the mess to be cleaned up. -
St. Louis Ship (with Jews)
This was a ship full of 900 Jewish refugees who had fled from Germany to the U.S in hopes for a better life. WE had turned them away though because we had feared the ship had Nazi spies. This affected everyone of the shit because they were all forced back to Germany to be captured or worse. -
Germany invades Poland
Germany invades Poland using the “blitzkrieg” strategy. This was supposed to bomb their resources earlier on. The people of Poland were the impacted group, due to their land being taken by Germany. -
Lodz Ghetto Opens
This was a ghetto established by the German Nazi's after the invasion of Poland. This was a second largest Ghetto of World War 2, and this affected 68,000 Polish Jews as the were forced into the Ghetto. -
Madagascar Plan presented
It was a plan proposal by the Nazi German government to relocate the Jewish population of Europe to the island of Madagascar. This mainly affected the Jewish Population because they were all going to be forced onto the small island of Madagascar. -
Auschwitz opens
It opened up for about 2 years and was the largest concentration and death camp during WWII. During the 2 years the Camp was open, nearly 1 million Jewish people were killed. -
The Commisair Order
The deeply ideological nature of the Germans' fight against the Soviet Union was reflected in the "Commissar Order" issued by the German Armed Forced High Command on June 6, 1941. Political commissars were Soviet Communist Party officials who oversaw its military units and reported directly to party leaders. -
Yellow Star for German Jews
This was a little sleeve that the German Jew would have to wear that would indicate if you were a Jew or not. This had the Star of David on it. This affected all Jews because you were forced to wear it, and people would discriminate against you, if you had the star. -
Einsatzgruppen, starts
These were Mobile Killing squads with SS troops would massacre Jews. They would take the Jews where they would make them dig a ditch or have a ditch dug already, and proceed to kill Jews. -
Babi Yar
A ravine where nearly 100,000 Jews were shot and killed. The Nazi’s made the Jews undress and lie on dead bodies of others and they were shot. -
Wannsee Conference
On January 20, 1942, 15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question." This was supposed to finally deal with the Jews, and how they were supposed to get rid of them. -
Dr Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz
Mengele was employed as the medical officer for Birkenau’s ‘Gypsy’ camp, but during his time at the camp, he gained the nickname “The Angel of Death.” because of the terrible experiments he did with genetics. This impacted people that were forced into Auschwitz death camps. -
Himmler Orders Liquidation of ghettos
Himmler ordered that all the Jews left in the ghettos of Ostland were to be taken to concentration camps. This affected all the Jews still left in the Soviet areas, forcing the weak to be killed or put into concentration camps where they would be killed. -
Last Gassing at Auschwitz
The last "selection" of prisoners to be gassed was on October 30th of 1944, where they would be gassed. This decision was made after the liberation of Majdanek and the discovery, by soldiers of the Soviet Union, of the incriminating evidence of 500 cans of Zyklon-B and three remaining gas chambers with blue stains on the walls, left by the gas. While this affected this Jews in a good way, as none would be gassed anymore at Auschwitz. -
Himmler Orders Destruction of Auschwitz
Soviet Union forces approached, SS chief Heinrich Himmler orders the destruction of the Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chambers and crematoria. While this was beneficial for people forced into death camps, it was bad for The Nazis for having to remove such a thing. -
Liberation of Auschwitz
This is when the Soviet Army charged into Auschwitz, liberating over 7,000 people who were ill and dying. Auschwitz was said to have deported more than 1.3 million people. This camp affected all the groups of people the Nazi''s had decriminated agaisnt during the Holocaust, as their goal was to wipe our all the people they deemed "inferior." -
Hitler Commits Suicide
Hitler had commited suicide in an air-raid shelter, in which he consumed a cyanide capsule. This affected the whole country for they didn't have a leader in such a desperate time, then left a tarnished reputation on Germany. -
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 affected all the Nazi leaders as they were tried for the many crimes they had committed. -
Adolf Eichmann captured
Israel's prime minister captured Adolf Eichmann and he we being put on trial for going about “the final solution to the Jewish question.” He had gassed and killed over 4 million Jews in concentration camps. -
Dr Josef Mengele Dies
Dr. Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi doctor who performed medical experiments at the Auschwitz death camps, dies of a stroke while swimming in Brazil—although his death was not verified until 1985.