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Schutzstaffel Organized
Served as a personal bodyguard for Adolf Hitler (black shirts). Affected any people that Hitler thought were suspicious and may be against their beliefs. -
Hitler Becomes Chancellor
Paul von Hindenburg, the president of Germany, announced that Hitler would be Chancellor after being egged on by many citizens that were tired of the terrible political conditions Germany was in. -
Hitler Claims Emergency Powers
Hitler was able to have Emergency powers - ones that give Hitler more power in an emergency - because of the Enabling Act of 1933. The Enabling Act affected all citizens in Germany because it took away their liberties and gave them to the state. -
Boycott of Jewish Businesses.
When Germans did not buy things from Jewish Businesses, which forced them to sell their business. Then, the Nazi's would buy the business and it would thrive because it was a Nazi business. Greatly affected the Jewish because they couldn’t make money. -
Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases
People with any diseases, abnormalities, or disabilities were killed, so that they would not pass on those traits to the next generation.
This affected millions of people who were disabled/had diseases, and was really the start of all of the mass killings in Germany. -
Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals
This 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. -
Creation of the Zigeunerlager
Certain Groups in Germany; The Sinti and Roma, were sent to forced labor camps. -
Nuremberg Laws
Laws that promoted the idea that Non-Jews were better than Jews.
These affected Jewish people because they were placed lower in people’s minds, and were legally discriminated against. -
Reichszentrale is created
The Reich Central Order for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion.
This affected people of the LGBTQ+ Community and for instance, people who were raped and wanted to get abortions, or anyone else who happened to want to get an abortion, because they couldn’t do/be these things. -
Nazi's Occupy Rhineland
Hitler ignored the Treaty of Versailles by sending Military forces into Rhineland, which was a demilitarized zone.
This affected the rest of Europe, because they realized that Hitler wasn’t afraid to cross lines and break laws to get what he wanted. -
Kristallnacht/The Night of Broken Glass
An organized destruction of about 7,500 Jewish Businesses. This affected Jews because they lost their businesses along with being forced to pay for the damage -
Einsatzgruppen, starts
Hitler’s armies that consisted of 7 battalions (large bodies of troops). Their purpose was to kill the suspected enemies of the German State -
Lodz Ghetto Opens
An area where all ethnicities, especially Jews and Roma, were banished as they waited for trains to pick them up and be carted off to death camps.
This affected Jews and Roma as they were forced into poverty, and honestly, death. -
St. Louis Ship (with Jews)
A ship that went to cuba with 937 Jewish Refugees escaping persecution. Nobody would accept the refugees, and they had to return to Germany. -
Germany Invades Poland
Germany used all aspects of their military to achieve a surprise attack on Poland, successfully invading -
Auschwitz Opens
Largest of the Nazi concentration and death camps. Located in southern Poland. Jews were impacted by being starved and worked to death. -
Madagascar Plan Presented
This was a plan made by the Nazis to banish millions of Jews to Madagascar. The plan was not enacted because they thought there would be troubles with French Settlers already there. -
Babi Yar
About 30,000 Jews forced into groups went to the Babi Yar ravine, where they had to take all of their clothes off and then were shot with a machine gun into the ravine. -
The Commissar 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. -
Himmler Orders Destruction of Auschwitz
Heinrich Himmler, who was an SS Chief, tried to destroy the evidence of their mass killings by destroying all of their gas chambers and crematoria. -
Wannsee Conference
The conference used to find a “final solution” to getting rid of all of the Jews. This affected the Jews, because the “final solution” was genocide. -
Dr Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz
Dr. Josef Mengele conducted countless experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz. Harmed and killed prisoners, especially twins. -
Himmler Orders Liquidation of Ghettos
Heinrich Himmler ordered to liquidate, or eliminate, all Ghettos and transfer the remaining Jews to concentration camps. Affected Jews because they were being forced to move. -
Yellow Star for German Jews
Yellow badges that Jews were forced to wear. The Jews were affected because the badges represented that they were outsiders and were shamed. -
Last Gassing at Auschwitz
After Himmel ordered all of the gas chambers to be destroyed, this was the date of the last gassing.
This affected everyone who wasn’t gassed on this last day, because now they had a little bit more hope that they would survive. -
Liberation of Auschwitz
The Soviet Army entered Auschwitz and liberated over 7,000 of the remaining prisoners. This greatly affected the 7,000 prisoners and those who would have been deported to Auschwitz later. -
Hitler Commits Suicide
Hitler swallowed a cyanide pill and shot himself with a pistol as his personal air-raid shelter collapsed on top of him.
It really affected all of Europe, because Hitler was no longer alive and well being able to control Germany, and therefore, no longer a real threat to other countries. -
International Military Tribunal
Trials for major Nazi Leaders begin in Nuremberg, Germany.
This affected these people, because they were probably going to die, and it affected a lot of Holocaust victims, because they felt their families were getting avenged. -
Dr Josef Mengele Dies
He died of a stroke while swimming in Brazil