Timeline of the Holocaust

By mariawoltz0

  • Schutzstaffel Organized

    Schutzstaffel was a paramilitary organization under Hitler's rule.

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor

  • Hitler Claims Emergency Powers

    Hitler claimed he needed Emergency Powers which were given to him and he never gave them up until he 'died'.

  • Boycott of Jewish Businesses

    This is when the Nazi's were taking away all of the Jewish businesses for them not to work and get money.

  • Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases

    This is when the Nazi's forced starilization of those who deemed to have a "hereditary disease"

  • Nuremberg Laws

    These laws were to prevent Jews from buildings and other places that aren't owned by Jews.

  • Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals

    Also known as the Nuremberg laws, this is when Nazis Separate legal status for German Jews

  • Nazi’s Occupy Rhineland

  • Reichszentrale is created

    Reichszentrale was a broadcasting corporation that spread Nazi Propaganda.
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    Kristallnacht/The Night of Broken Glass

    The Night of the Broken Glass was a night when Nazi's broke into many synagogues and buildings and caught many on fire.

  • St. Louis Ship (with Jews)

    St. Louis Ship carried many Jews that escaped persecution. They sailed all the way to Cuba but they were denied entrance and were forced to go back.
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    Germany invades Poland

    This marks the start of WWII.

  • Lodz Ghetto Opens

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    Madagascar Plan presented

    This was a plan that the Nazi's presented that the Jew's should be moved to the island of Madagascar.
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    Babi Yar

    Babi Yar is a ravine in Ukraine and a site of massacres carried out by German forces during their campaign against the Soviet Union in WWII.

  • The Commisair Order

    This was an order issued by the German High Command before Operation Barbarossa.

  • Yellow Star for German Jews

    Jews were forced to wear yellow stars on their clothing to show that they were Jewish.
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    Einsatzgruppen Starts

    Einsatzgruppen is a period of time when Nazi death squads killed mass amounts of Jews.

  • Wannsee Conference

    High-ranking Nazi Officials met and calmly discussed the logics of the "Final Solution", the elimination of the Jews from Germany.

  • Last Gassing at Auschwitz

  • Dr Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz

    Josef Mengele was moved to Auschwitz where he later killed over 400,000 Jews from 1943-1945

  • Himmler Orders Liquidation of ghettos

    The ghettos where places where many Jews were put before they were taken to Camps or to be killed.

  • Himmler Orders Destruction of Auschwitz

  • Liberation of Auschwitz

  • Hitler Commits Suicide

    It is said that Hitler commited suicide in his bunker but many people think that he escaped into Argentina.

  • International Military Tribunal

    Also known as the Nuremberg Trials, this trial is about the Nazis being charged with War crimes and against Humanity.

  • Auschwitz Opens

    Auschwitz-Birkenau opened in 1940 and was the largest of the Nazi Concentration and death camps, located in southern Poland.

  • Adolf Eichmann captured

    Eichmann was captured by the Mossad in Argentina and was found guilty of war crimes in a widely publicised trial in Jerusalem, where he was Executed.