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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.
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President Paul von Hindenburg had appointed Hitler as Chancellor after a series of parliamentary elections and associated backroom intrigues.
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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.
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The boycott of Jewish Businesses was claimed to be a defensive reaction to the Jewish boycott of German goods.
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The Nazi government passed this law to force sterilization of those who have hereditary diseases
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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
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The Nuremberg Laws were antisemitic and racist laws in Nazi Germany.
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The remilitarisation of the Rhineland by the German Army. This is when German military forces entered Rhineland
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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
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Kristallnacht or Night of Broken Glass, was an attack on the Jews. Many Jewish buildings were vandalized/destroyed
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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.
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Germany invading Poland marked the beginning of World War II.
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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.
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A proposal from the Nazi German government to try to remove and relocate the Jews by force
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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.
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German Nazis ordered anyone who was Jewish to wear yellow star of davids on them so people knew they were Jewish
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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.
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Nazis Einsatzgruppen begins mass murder. Germany attacks the Soviet Union. Mass shootings on Jews begin in Ponary Forest, the killing grounds near Poland.
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The Nazis opened the Lodz Ghetto to house Jews
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This was when the last Jewish person was executed by the form of gas at the Auschwitz concentration camp
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This was a meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel leaders
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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.
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Dr Josef Mengele is a doctor that would pick people that were in Auschwitz and perform medical experiments on them.
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Himmler issued an order to liquidate all ghettos and transfer remaining Jewish inhabitants to concentration camps
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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.
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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
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Hitler commits suicide in his underground bunker by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head.
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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.
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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.
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Dr Josef Mengele dies from a stroke while swimming in Brazil.