Timeline of Genocide - Maria Sipes

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  • Schutzstaffel Organized

    The SS were Hitler’s personal bodyguards and a feared organization. This affected Germany because the SS would go on to do unspeakable things.

  • Hitler Becomes Chancellor

    The Nazi party assumes control of the German state. This affected Germany because in the future, Hitler will do unspeakable things.

  • Hitler Claims Emergency Powers

    The Enabling Act of 1933 gave Hitler dictatorial powers. This affected Germany because it was the start of Hitler’s revolution.

  • Boycott of Jewish Businesses

    In the first planned action against Jewish people, a boycott of Jewish businesses. Jewish business owners were affected by having their businesses boycotted.

  • Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases

    This law prevented people with physical and mental disabilities from reproducing. This affected those people because they were being discriminated against.

  • Law Against Dangerous Habitual Criminals

    This allowed courts to imprison dangerous criminals for life if they deemed them dangerous to society. This affected German people because they had peace of mind that dangerous criminals may be apprehended.

  • Nuremberg Laws

    This law defined Jewish people as a person with three or four Jewish grandparents. This affected many people in Europe because Jewish was now not just about religion.

  • Nazis Occupy Rhineland

    Germany took a direct action against the Treaty of Versailles by remilitarizing Rhineland. This affected all of Europe because this was one of Hitler’s first big actions.

  • Reichszentrale is created

    The Reich Central Office for combating Homosexuality and Abortion aimed to fight against homosexuality and abortion. This affected homosexuals and women seeking abortions because they would not be allowed to do that.

  • Einsatzgruppen Starts

    Special SS forces that murdered many Soviet Jews and Roma. This affected those groups because they were killed.

  • Kristallnacht/The Night of Broken Glass

    Members of the Nazi party carried out acts of violence against Jewish people. This affected those Jewish people because it was the start of the Holocaust.

  • St. Louis Ship

    This ship contained Jewish people wishing to flee from Germany to Cuba, but Cuba cancelled their landing permits. This affected the 937 passages of the ship because they could not move to a safe location.

  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany invaded Poland, signalling the start of World War II. This affected almost the entire world because it was the start of a second world war.

  • Lodz Ghetto Opens

    About 160,000 Jews were confined to this ghetto. This affected those Jews because they would later be deported.

  • Madagascar Plan Presented

    This was the plan to relocate European Jews to Madagascar. This affected Jewish people because this was negative action taken against them.

  • Auschwitz Opens

    The first prisoners were brought into the Auschwitz concentration camp. Jewish people and other discriminated people were affected by being brought to the camps and gassed or worked to death.

  • The Commissar Order

    This ordered Soviet political commissioners to be executed. This affected Soviet policial commisoiners because they would soon be executed if they were found among prisoners.

  • Babi Yar

    German police units murdered the Jewish population of Kiev at Babi Yar. The Jewish population of Kiev was affected by being killed.

  • Wannsee Conference

    The goal of this conference was to get rid of all European Jews. This would affect European Jews because they would soon be launched into the Holocaust.

  • Creation of the Zigeunerlager

    Zigeunerlager was a camp inside Auschwitz for Sinti and Roma. This affected Sinti and Roma by putting them into a concentration camp to eventually be gassed.

  • Yellow Star

    Jews wore a yellow star for easy identification. This affected the Jewish population of Europe because wearing an identification badge may be dehumanizing.

  • Dr Josef Mengele Arrives at Auschwitz

    Dr. Josef Mengele conducted cruel and inhumane experiments at his time in Auschwitz. This affected the prisoners in Auschwitz (mostly pairs of identical twins) because his experiments often lead to death.

  • Himmler Orders Liquidation of Ghettos

    Himmler ordered occupied Soviet ghettos to be liquidated. This affected the Jewish occupants of those ghettos because they would be taken to concentration camps.

  • Last Gassing at Auschwitz

    The last prisoners were sent to gas chambers. This affected the remaining prisoners because they would not be killed by gas.

  • Himmler Orders Destruction of Auschwitz

    Himmler ordered the destruction of crematoriums and gas chambers. This affected prisoners of Auschwitz because they were forced to destroy evidence of mass murders.

  • Liberation of Auschwitz

    7,000 prisoners are liberated from the concentration camp. This affected those prisoners because they were finally free.

  • Hitler Commits Suicide

    Adolf Hitler shot himself in the head in his bunker. This affected Germany because Berlin then fell into the Soviet’s hands.

  • International Military Tribunal

    This is a trial of Nazi German leaders. This affected those leaders because they were put on trial.

  • Adolf Eichmann Captured

    Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was captured. He was affected because he was put on trial.

  • Dr Josef Mengele Dies

    He suffered a stroke and drowned while swimming in Brazil. This affected Dr. Mengele because he died.