timeline of genocide

  • St. Louis Ship (with Jews)

  • Hitler Claims Emergency Powers

  • Boycott of Jewish Businesses

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor

  • Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases

    -Forced sterilization on all people who suffered from diseases
  • Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals

  • Creation of the Zigeunerlager

  • Nuremberg Laws

    -Any one with 3 or 4 Jewish grandparents was considered jewish, while those with 2 jewish grandparents were designated Mischlinge (half-breed).
  • Nazi’s Occupy Rhineland

  • Reichszentrale is created

  • Kristallnacht/The Night of Broken Glass

    -German synagogues were burned and windows in jewish shops were smashed; some 100 jews were killed and thousands more arrested.
  • Lodz Ghetto Opens

  • Germany invades Poland

  • Auschwitz opens

  • Madagascar Plan presented

  • Last Gassing at Auschwitz

    -500 officials gassed 500 soviet POWs to death with the pesticide Zyklon-B.
  • Liberation of Auschwitz

    -Experiments with mass killing methods had been ongoing at the concentration camp of Auschwitz, near Krakow.
  • Yellow Star for German Jews

    -Every person designated as a Jew in German Held territory was marked with a yellow star, making them open targets.
  • Dr Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz

    Dr. Josef Mengele is known as being the “death angel” or sometimes the “white angel”
  • The Commisair Order

  • Babi Yar

  • Einsatzgruppen, starts

    -Mobile killing squads
    -SS Troops massacre Jews
    -Hitler saw as too slow
    -”waste of a good bullet”
  • Wannsee Conference

  • Himmler Orders Liquidation of ghettos

  • Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz

  • Hitler committed suicide

  • Schutzstaffel Organized

  • International Military Tribunal

    -Germany begins a trial of 21 major Nazi German leaders on charges of crime against peace, war crimes, crime against humanity, and conspiracy to commit each of these crimes
  • Adolf Eichmann captured

  • Dr Josef Mengele Dies