Timeline of Genocide

  • Schutzstaffel Organized

    Known as SS and performed as bodyguards for Hitler
  • Act of 1933

    Hitler Claims Emergency Powers aka enabling act of 1933, gave him powers.
  • Madagascar Plan presented

    Proposal by German government to relocate Jews to Madagascar
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    Boycott on Businesses

    After Hitler came into power, a Boycott of Jewish Businesses broke out
  • Hitler becomes Chancellor

    Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany after many debates
  • Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases

    German government requires sterilization of people with mental and physical disabilities
  • Law Against Dangerous Habitual Criminals

    German government passes law that allows courts to order the imprisonment of “habitual criminals”.
  • Nuremberg Laws

    These laws passed had the racial theories from Nazi ideology.
  • Nazi's Occupy Rhineland

    Hitler ordered Germans to reoccupy Rhineland.
  • Reichszentrale is created

    Allowed the persecution of homosexuals.
  • The Night of Broken Glass

    Segregated all Jewish individuals and the Germans after a fight broke out between them both.
  • Einsatzgruppen

    In preparation for the invasion of Poland, Einsatzgruppen, starts.
  • Lodz Ghetto Opens

    Jewish people of Lodz suffered after the German invasion of Poland.
  • St. Louis Ship (with Jews)

    When almost a thousand Jews fled Germany on a cruise, the St. Louis Ship
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    Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland and marks the beginning of world war II
  • Auschwitz Opens

    The biggest death camp, Auschwitz opens
  • The Commisair Order

    Notified Hitler’s commanders that the upcoming invasion from the Soviet Union was going to be different from the previous.
  • Babi Yar

    Babi Yar ravine in Ukraine
  • Wannsee Conference

    A meeting with Nazi officials in Berlin
  • Yellow Star for German Jews

    Hitler ordered all Jews in Paris to wear a yellow star on the left side of their coats, that identified who they were.
  • Liquidation of Ghettos

    Chief of soviet (Himmler) Orders Liquidation (getting rid of everything) of ghettos
  • Last Gassing at Aushwitz

    The last group of Jews were killed in a gas chamber byt the Germans.
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    Zigeunerlager

    Creation of the Zigeunerlager, a gypsy family camp
  • Destruction of Auschwitz

    Chief of soviet (Himmler) Orders Destruction of Auschwitz
  • Dr Josef Mengele

    Evil scientist (Dr Josef Mengele) arrives at Auschwitz
  • Liberation of Auschwitz

    The Soviet Union entered Auschwitz and freed thousands of Jews.
  • Hitler's Suicide

    Hitler Commits Suicide by gunshot in Berlin
  • International Military Tribunal

    International Military Tribunal. Germany begins a trial of 21 major nazi german leaders.
  • Adolf Eichmann

    Adolf Eichmann captured 1960 and sent to Israel
  • Dr. Josef Mengele dies

    Evil scientist Dr Josef Mengele Dies at auschwitz