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Schutzstaffel Organized
A major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. This will eventually affect the jews because they will be mass murdered. -
St. Louis Ship (with Jews)
MS St. Louis was a German ocean liner known for carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Germany in 1939. This affected Jews because it transported many. -
Hitler Claims Emergency Powers
Hitler was able to do anything he wanted and this effected Europe because he started many wars. -
Yellow Star for German Jews
The nazi's made Jews wear yellow stars to show that they were Jews. This affected nazis and jews because it was easier to identify Jews and kill them and discriminate. -
Hitler becomes Chancellor
Hitler appointed to head of government. This affected Europe because he has lots of power. -
Boycott of Jewish Businesses
A boycott of Jewish businesses in Germany. It affected Jews because they lost money. -
Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases
forced the sterilization of all persons who suffered from diseases considered hereditary, such as mental illness. This affected mentally/physically ill people. -
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. It also provides for the castration of sex offenders. This affected sex offenders because they would get castrated. -
Nuremberg Laws
The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour prohibited marriages and extramarital intercourse between Jews and Germans and forbade the employment of German females under 45 in Jewish households. This affected Jews and Germans because they couldn't get married or have intercourse. -
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. This affected Jews and pregnant women. -
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 affects the German military. -
Kristallnacht/The Night of Broken Glass
A pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians. This affected Jews because they got massacred. -
Einsatzgruppen, starts
Einsatzgruppen were Schutzstaffel paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass killings, primarily by shooting, during World War II. Multiple minorities affected. -
Lodz Ghetto Opens
Established by the Nazi German authorities for Polish Jews and Roma following the 1939 invasion of Poland. It was the second-largest ghetto in all of German-occupied Europe after the Warsaw Ghetto. This affected Jews because they were held in ghettos. -
Germany invades Poland
The Invasion of Poland, known in Poland as the September Campaign or the 1939 Defensive War, and in Germany as the Poland Campaign, was an invasion of Poland by Germany that marked the beginning of World War II. Lots of Polish people affected. -
Auschwitz opens
The opening of a concentration camp which holds the death of millions of Jews and minorities. -
Madagascar Plan presented
A proposal by the Nazi German government to relocate the Jewish population of Europe to the island of Madagascar. This affected Jews because they would be transported somewhere else. -
The Commisair Order
It instructed the Wehrmacht that any Soviet political commissar identified among captured troops be summarily executed as an enforcer of the Judeo-Bolshevism ideology in military forces. This affected higher rank soviets who were captured. -
Babi Yar
A ravine in Ukraine and a site of multiple massacres held against the Soviet Union by the Germans. -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel leaders, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. This affected nazi's because they had conferences. -
Creation of the Zigeunerlager
Concentration camp for gypsies. The gypsies were affected because lots of them died. -
Himmler Orders Liquidation of ghettos
Himmler ordered for ghettos to be liquidated and all Jews occupied to be sent to camps. This affected Jews because many died. -
Last Gassing at Auschwitz
The last gassing at Auschwitz and this was the end of mass murder of Jews. -
Himmler Orders Destruction of Auschwitz
SS chief Heinrich Himmler orders the destruction of the Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chambers and crematoria. This could save tons of Jews/Minorites. -
Dr Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz
The doctor who tortures Jews arrives. He led to many deaths of Jews and torture of Jewish children. -
Liberation of Auschwitz
the Soviet army entered Auschwitz and liberated more than 7,000 remaining prisoners, who were mostly ill and dying. This affected Jews because they were saved. -
Hitler Commits Suicide
Hitler kills himself in his bunker. This affected all of Europe because it was a sign the war was over. -
International Military Tribunal
A trial of 21 (of 24 indicted) 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 Nazi's who were tried. -
Adolf Eichmann Captured
Nazi general captured and stands trial in Israel. Nazi group loses main leader. -
Dr Josef Mengele Dies
The doctor who tortured many Jews is now gone. Now Jews are a little more safe.