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Schutzstaffel Organized
The Schutzstaffel 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 began with a small guard unit known as the Saal-Schutz made up of NSDAP volunteers to provide security for party meetings in Munich. -
Hitler becomes Chancellor
Affected everyone because of his new higher position in the government, he was able to put some of his plans into action, like getting rid of politics. -
Hitler Claims Emergency Powers
Hitler passed laws to give him complete power over the country of Germany. This transformed the government into a legal dictatorship.
Affected Germany because now everything was under Hitler's direction. -
Boycott of Jewish Businesses
The boycott was aimed to intimidate Germany’s Jews and discourage the German public from shopping at Jewish businesses. It marked the beginning of Nazi efforts to drive Jews from the German economy. -
Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases
This sought to prevent the possible transmission of hereditary diseases through forced sterilization. -
Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg Laws were antisemitic and racist laws in Nazi Germany. They were enacted by the Reichstag at a special meeting convened during the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party. This impacted German and Jew relationships. -
Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals
A Nuremberg law stated that regular criminals had to be sterilized so that they could not have children that would inherit their criminal ways. This affected these people because it was forced sterilization. Therefore, they were unfairly treated. -
Nazi’s Occupy Rhineland
German troops marched into the Rhineland. This action was directly against the Treaty of Versailles which had laid out the terms which the defeated Germany had accepted. This move, in terms of foreign relations, threw the European allies, especially France and Britain, into confusion. -
Reichs Zentrale 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. -
Yellow Star for German Jews
Jewish people were forced to wear a yellow star on their clothing so other people and German officers could identify them as Jewish.
This affected the Jewish people because if they were wearing the start then some stores would let them come in or officers might give them a harder time than necessary. -
Kristallnacht/The Night of Broken Glass
Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. Additionally, some 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to Nazi concentration camps. -
St. Louis Ship (with Jews)
The St. Louis Ship was when the US refused a ship full of Jewish refugees. This affected the refugees because they did not have anywhere to go and a third of the passengers were murdered. -
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. -
Germany invades Poland
The invasion of Poland, marked the beginning of World War II. The German invasion began on 1 September 1939, one week after the signing of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union, and one day after the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union had approved the pact. -
Lodz Ghetto Opens
The Lodz Ghetto was A ghetto for Polish Jews and Roma people (second largest ghetto in Europe. There were 210,000 Polish Jew victims. -
The Madagascar Plan
The Madagascar Plan was a suggested plan by Nazi Germany to relocate the Jewish population of Europe to Madagascar. The idea was made by Franz Rademacher, who was the head of the Jewish Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Although this plan did not actually go through, if it were to have, I would predict that the lack of infrastructure in Madagascar and the journey down to the island would’ve caused more issues for the Jews. -
The Commissar Order
The Commissar Order was an order of what to do with political prisoners. This affected the prisoners because the order was to execute all of them. -
Auschwitz opens
The Auschwitz concentration camp was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust. It killed 1.1 million people, focusing on groups such as the Jewish. -
Last Gassing at Auschwitz
The last gassing at Auschwitz consisted of 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. -
Wannsee Conference
The Wannsee Conference was a meeting of important German officials to discuss the “Final Solution”. This affected the people that Hitler didn’t approve of because most of them died. -
Creation of the Zigeunerlager
The Zigeunerlager was the name of a group of people called gypsies or Roma. Hitler deemed these people unworthy of receiving the same rights as other people. These people were affected because they were treated much like the Jews because they were forced into ghettos and many died in concentration camps -
Himmler Orders Liquidation of ghettos
The liquidation of ghettos was when all of the Jews and others that were living there were transferred into concentration camps. This affected all of the people who lived in the ghettos. -
Babi Yar
The Babi Yar massacre of nearly 34,000 Jewish men, women, and children begins on the outskirts of Kiev in Nazi-occupied Ukraine. -
Himmler Orders Destruction of Auschwitz
The destruction of Auschwitz happened because they wanted to try and destroy the evidence of the mass killings. This affected the prisoners because they were the ones who had to manually take them apart. -
Dr Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz
Josef Mengele was an anthropologist and SS physician, who is infamous for his inhumane medical experiments on the prisoners in Auschwitz. -
Liberation of Auschwitz
Auschwitz was liberated by the Red Army during the Vistula. Although most of the prisoners had been forced onto a death march, about 7,000 had been left behind. -
Hitler Commits Suicide
Most people were happy because many wished for his death because of all of the terrible things he had done. Affected the whole world because a dead man could no longer hurt others. -
International Military Tribunal
They were post war crime trials. Those who were put on trial were affected greatly because they were punished for their actions -
Adolf Eichmann captured
Nazi SS officer who organized the “Final Plan” solution was captured and found guilty of war crimes. This affected him because he was going to diem, but it also affected others because now a criminal was dead so people were happy. -
Dr Josef Mengele Dies
Josef Mengele died of a stroke while swimming in Brazil. Although, his death was not verified until 1985.