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Schutzstaffel Organized
This was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II it also provided security for party meetings in Munich. They would target anyone who was against what Hitler would say. -
St. Louis Ship (with Jews)
This was a German ocean liner that carried more than 900 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in 1939 intending to escape anti-Semitic persecution. This impacted the Jewish because the US had not let them into the country and we could have helped them a decent bit but did not want to get targeted in the war. -
Hitler becomes Chancellor
Adolf Hitler was a German politician and leader of the Nazi Party. He rose to power as the chancellor of Germany in 1933, and as Führer in 1934. During his dictatorship from 1933 to 1945, he initiated World War II in Europe by invading Poland on 1 September 1939. Hitler targeted mostly Jews because his thought was that Jews and communists had betrayed the country. -
Hitler Claims Emergency Powers
Hitler claims Emergency powers with no intent on giving them back because he wanted to be the ruler of Germany and to expand German powers. He did this by targeted the groups of Jewish people and communists, and he would do anything to expand the Power of Germany. -
Boycott of Jewish Businesses
The boycott of Jewish businesses was when people refused to buy from Jewish businesses. This affected Jews severely because they had no way to stay afloat and could barely afford food. -
Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases
This saw sought to prevent the possible transmission of hereditary diseases through forced sterilization. This impacted people who did involuntary sterilization which they would do to people with physical and mental disabilities or mental illness, Roma (Gypsies), “asocial elements,” and Afro-Germans. -
Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals
This new law Germany set 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 meant that sex offenders would be castrated and would imprison anyone they deemed “dangerous”. -
Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg laws defined Jews as persons with at least one Jewish grandparent and declared explicitly that “a Jew cannot be a citizen of the Reich. He cannot exercise the right to vote; he cannot occupy public office.” This clearly targets Jewish people because they could not do things a normal citizen had the right to do. -
Nazi’s Occupy Rhineland
This action was directly against the Treaty of Versailles which had laid out the terms which defeated Germany had accepted. This move, in terms of foreign relations, threw the European allies, especially France and Britain, into confusion. It affected everyone who had to jump into the war because Germany had initiated a total world war. -
Reichszentrale is created
This was the central instrument of Nazi Germany for the fight against homosexuality in Nazi Germany and the fight against abortion. This targeted against homosexuals and people who wanted to get an abortion because they had set the law completely against both of those. -
Kristallnacht/The Night of Broken Glass
This was a pogrom against Jews carried out by SA paramilitary forces and civilians where they smashed Jewish businesses and homes with rocks and other things to destroy it. This affected all Jewish families that had just wanted to live a simple life and had brought them into this form of hate. -
Yellow Star for German Jews
Shortly after the invasion of Poland in September 1939, local German authorities began introducing mandatory wearing of badges. This targeted Jewish people because now anyone would be able to identify if they were Jewish from a badge that they had to wear. -
Einsatzgruppen, starts
Einsatzgruppen were Schutzstaffel paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass killings, primarily by shooting, during World War II in German-occupied Europe. They would target anyone that was against Nazi Germany’s beliefs. -
Germany invades Poland
This marked the start of WW2 and would also be similar to the start of the Holocaust. Poland was a not so powerful country and Germany would take an easy win against the Polish army. -
Auschwitz opens
This marked a terrible time because later Auschwitz would be known for the killing of many Jews and other prisoners. Auschwitz targeted many Jews in the Holocaust and historians estimate that between 1940 and 1945, the Nazis sent at least 1.3 million people to Auschwitz -
Madagascar Plan presented
This was a Nazi plan presented to exile European Jews to the island of Madagascar. This plan targeted Jewish people and was planned to set the African island as some sort of sick “super ghetto” for Jewish people. -
Lodz Ghetto Opens
When the gates of this terrible ghetto that many were forced into were closed, it housed 163,777 residents. This was mainly Jewish people who were affected because they were happy at first that they had there own little neighborhood but soon realized the amount of deprivation of food and resources that they needed. -
The Commisair Order
It instructed the Wehrmacht that any Soviet political commissar identified among captured troops be summarily executed as a purported enforcer of the "Judeo-Bolshevism" ideology in military forces. It is one of a series of criminal orders issued by the leadership. This targeted Soviets because it meant that any captured could be executed by law. -
Babi Yar
This was a site of massacres carried out by German forces during their campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II. Jews were effected because Hitler ordered the extermination of all Jews by this point and they were targeted. -
Last Gassing at Auschwitz
The last one was 300–400 members of the Auschwitz II Sonderkommando, who had been forced to dig up and burn the remains of that camp's mass graves, thought to hold 100,000 corpses. This impacted many people of the Holocaust because it marked the last gassing which was the end of the German Reich and a big win for the prisoners at camps. -
Wannsee Conference
This was a meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel leaders, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee. This impacted many people because the Conference had set precedents for the war. -
Creation of the Zigeunerlager
This was a section of the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp where Romani families deported to the camp were held together, instead of being separated as was typical at Auschwitz. It targeted mostly Romani families because they were deported to this camp. -
Himmler Orders Liquidation of ghettos
Himmler issued an order to liquidate all ghettos and transfer remaining Jewish inhabitants to concentration camps. A few ghettos were re-designated as concentration camps and existed until 1944. Himmler targeted Jewish people but did not want any evidence against him and his party for post-war crimes so he ordered the liquidation of ghettos and later the destruction of camps altogether. -
Himmler Orders Destruction of Auschwitz
During this SS attempt to destroy the evidence of mass killings, prisoners were forced to dismantle and dynamite the structures. They would try and cover up the mass killings against Jewish people and other prisoners of Auschwitz to make themselves look better. -
Dr Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz
Josef Mengele was a terrible human who would perform deadly human experiments on prisoners and was a member of the team of doctors who selected victims to be killed in the gas chambers. He targeted mainly Jewish people but overall he would test on any prisoner that was at the Auschwitz camp. -
Liberation of Auschwitz
Auschwitz was a death camp that would target types of people and historians estimate that between 1940 and 1945, the Nazis sent at least 1.3 million people to Auschwitz. About 1.1 million of these people died or were killed at Auschwitz. The Liberation of Auschwitz meant that the camp had finally been seized and the prisoners who had still been in were released. This impacted all of the prisoners and the people whose families were outside of the camp. -
Hitler Commits Suicide
Due to all of the war pressure, Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces, ending Hitler’s dreams of a “1,000-year” Reich. This impacted everyone because the German people’s main leader had killed himself but it was great for the discriminated, because this lead to the surrender of Germany. -
International Military Tribunal
This was held to punish the people known for Germans with the best known of the postwar war crimes. This targeted Germans who had in the past tortured or been related to the torturing in the Holocaust. -
Adolf Eichmann captured
He was found guilty of war crimes in a widely publicized trial in Jerusalem, where he was executed by hanging in 1962. This affected Eichmann but also the people that he had tortured in the Holocaust. -
Dr Josef Mengele Dies
Josef Mengele was a torturer who selected prisoners for execution in the gas chambers and conducted medical experiments on prisoners. He died near São Paulo, Brazil and it is sad to see that he escaped from Germany after the war and did not have to suffer from his crimes. This impacts all people affected in the Holocaust because they did not get to see him suffer.