Timeline of Genocide

By 19apeterson

  • Schutzstaffel Organized

    The Schutzstaffel was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor

    President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or fÜhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party, as chancellor of Germany

  • Hitler Claims Emergency Powers

    Was essentially the enabling act

  • Boycott of Jewish Businesses

    was claimed to be a defensive reaction to the Jewish boycott of German goods

  • Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases

    forced the sterilization of all persons who suffered from diseases considered hereditary, such as mental illness, retardation, and physical deformity

  • Nuremberg Laws

    The two Nuremberg Laws were unanimously passed by the Reichstag

  • Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals

    habitual criminals were forced to undergo sterilisation as well

  • Reichszentrale is created

    The Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion was the central instrument of Nazi Germany for the fight against homosexuality in Nazi Germany and the fight against abortion

  • Nazi’s Occupy Rhineland

    The remilitarization of the Rhineland
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    Kristallnacht/The Night of Broken Glass

    was a pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany

  • St. Louis Ship (with Jews)

    The vessel under command of Captain Gustav Schröder was carrying 937 passengers, most of them Jewish refugees seeking asylum from Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany
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    Germany invades Poland

    was an invasion of Poland by Germany that marked the beginning of World War II

  • Auschwitz opens

    Largest of the Nazi concentration and death camps

  • Lodz Ghetto Opens

    Jews were formally sealed within the ghetto walls

  • Madagascar Plan presented

    the plan was shelved and all but forgotten

  • Einsatzgruppen, starts

    were special SS and police units tasked with securing occupied territories as German armed forces advanced in eastern Europe

  • The Commisair Order

    was an order issued by the German High Command

  • Babi Yar

    Possibly the largest two-day massacre during the Holocaust

  • Last Gassing at Auschwitz

    The end of the mass killing

  • Yellow Star for German Jews

    Two Jewish women in Occupied Paris

  • Wannsee Conference

    The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel leaders
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    Creation of the Zigeunerlager

    The gypsy family camp that last for 17 months

  • Himmler Orders Destruction of Auschwitz

    As Soviet forces continue to approach, SS chief Heinrich Himmler orders the destruction of the Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chambers and crematoria

  • Dr Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz

    arrived in preparation

  • Liberation of Auschwitz

    the Soviet army entered Auschwitz and liberated more than 7,000 remaining prisoners

  • Hitler Commits Suicide

    by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head

  • International Military Tribunal

    in Nuremberg, Germany, begins a trial of 21 (of 24 indicted) major Nazi German leaders on charges of crimes

  • Adolf Eichmann captured

    He was found guilty of war crimes, captured by the Mossad in Argentina

  • Dr Josef Mengele Dies

    “Angel of death”