Holocaust Timeline

By viviandchai

  • Schutzstaffel Organized

    The Schutzstaffel was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. Jews were affected by this because many were brutally murdered.

  • Hitler Becomes Chancellor

    President Paul von Hindenburg had appointed Hitler as Chancellor after a series of parliamentary elections and associated backroom intrigues.

  • Hitler Claims Emergency Powers

    The Enabling Act gave Hitler plenary powers and followed on the heels of the Reichstag Fire Decree, which had abolished most civil liberties and transferred state powers to the Reich government.

  • Boycott of Jewish Businesses

    The 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

    The Nazi government passed this law to force sterilization of those who have hereditary diseases

  • Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals

    On this date the German government passed a "Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals" this law orders courts to to order the indefinite imprisonments of people dangerous to the society

  • Nuremberg Laws

    The Nuremberg Laws were antisemitic and racist laws in Nazi Germany.

  • Nazi’s Occupy Rhineland

    The remilitarisation of the Rhineland by the German Army. This is when German military forces entered Rhineland

  • Reichs Zentrale is created

    This was when the Reichs Zentrale company was created. It was was a Nazi Party organization dedicated to appropriating cultural property during the Second World War

  • Kristallnacht/The Night of Broken Glass

    Kristallnacht or Night of Broken Glass, was an attack on the Jews. Many Jewish buildings were vandalized/destroyed

  • St. Louis Ship (with Jews)

    During World War II the Motorschiff St. Louis was a German ocean liner which carried Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany to try to escape anti-Semitic persecution.

  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany invading Poland marked the beginning of World War II.

  • Auschwitz Opens

    More than 1.1 million people died at Auschwitz, including nearly one million Jews. Many that were killed were sent to gas chambers, if not, they were forced into labor.

  • Madagascar Plan presented

    A proposal from the Nazi German government to try to remove and relocate the Jews by force

  • The Commissar Order

    This was an order issued by the German High Command. This ordered the Wehrmacht that any Soviet political commissar identified among captured troops be killed.

  • Yellow Star for German Jews

    German Nazis ordered anyone who was Jewish to wear yellow star of davids on them so people knew they were Jewish

  • Babi Yar

    Babi Yar is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital. It's a site of massacres carried out by German forces during their campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II.

  • Einsatzgruppen Starts

    Nazis Einsatzgruppen begins mass murder. Germany attacks the Soviet Union. Mass shootings on Jews begin in Ponary Forest, the killing grounds near Poland.

  • Lodz Ghetto Opens

    The Nazis opened the Lodz Ghetto to house Jews

  • Last Gassing at Auschwitz concentration camp

    This was when the last Jewish person was executed by the form of gas at the Auschwitz concentration camp

  • Wannsee Conference

    This was a meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel leaders

  • Creation of the Zigeunerlager

    There was a Gypsy family camp in Auschwitz that Romani families were deported to. The families were held together which wasn't very likely at Auschwitz.

  • Dr Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz

    Dr Josef Mengele is a doctor that would pick people that were in Auschwitz and perform medical experiments on them.

  • Himmler Orders Liquidation of Ghettos

    Himmler issued an order to liquidate all ghettos and transfer remaining Jewish inhabitants to concentration camps

  • Himmler Orders Destruction of Auschwitz

    As the Soviet armies approach, chief Himmler orders the destruction of the Auschwitz gas chambers and crematoria. During this attempt to destroy the evidence of mass killings, prisoners were forced to take apart and blow up the structures.

  • Liberation of Auschwitz

    Auschwitch was liberated by the Red Army. The Soviet Soldiers tried to help the survivors at the camp, but were astonished by the crimes the Nazis commited

  • Hitler Commits Suicide

    Hitler commits suicide in his underground bunker by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head.

  • International Military Tribunal

    The International Military Tribunal in Germany, this begins 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.

  • Adolf Eichmann Captured

    Adolf Eichmann was captured in Argentina by the Mossad. He was found guilty of war crimes after a trial in Jerusalem. Two years later he was hung.

  • Dr Josef Mengele Dies

    Dr Josef Mengele dies from a stroke while swimming in Brazil.