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Schutzstaffel Organized
This was a group organized by Hitler and the Nazi party who first served as bodyguards and later one of the most feared groups in Nazi Germany. They impacted anybody in concentration camps where they guarded because they killed and instilled great fear in them. -
Hitler becomes Chancellor
When Hitler became Chancellor he started the Nazi regime and placed many discriminatory laws on Jews. This affected the whole country of Germany because he started to fill the government with his own regime and personal ideology. -
Hitler claims Emergency Powers
Hitler claimed that he needed emergency powers because he (and the other Nazis) blamed the communists for burning down the Reichstag building. This impacted the communist party because it allowed the fascist party to come into power while they were being pushed out. Hitler gaining emergency powers basically let him make whatever decisions he wanted legally, so this would affect Germany. -
Boycott of Jewish Businesses
The Nazi government declared a boycott on Jews because they were saying bad things about the Nazi Regime. The Jews were impacted by this boycott because it resulted in more discrimination towards Jews Jewish businesses lost customers/profit. It also affected groups that buy from Jewish businesses because they would be criticized and punished by the Nazis. -
Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases
The forced sterilization of anyone with hereditary diseases such as mental illness. This affect lots of people with mental illness and people who are forced to be sterilized because some already had mental illnesses forced surgery could make that worse. -
Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals
This allowed the court to order imprisonment for “Habitual Criminals” due to them being a danger to society and castration of sex offenders. This affects everyone the court deems a danger to society this could be bad for people who didn’t do anything wrong and groups the court has bias against. -
Nuremberg Laws
These were a list of anti- sematic laws that restricted what the Jews could do and discriminated against them. This affected the Jews because it limited what they could do and instilled fear for future restrictions -
Nazi’s Occupy Rhineland
Hitler sent in Nazi troops to the Rhinelands and this was a demilitarized zone from the versailles treaty. This affected the rest of Europe because Germany went against the treaty which is an act of war, this lead to other violations as well. -
Reichszentrale is created
This is the persecution of homosexuals during the 1936 summer olympics, the primary reason was to collect data. This impacted the homosexual population because they were being called out, persecuted , and discriminated against -
Kristallnacht/The Night of Broken Glass
Nazi organized destruction and looting of synagogues, Jewish businesses, and Jewish homes. The Jewish population was affected because 30,000 Jewish men were sent to concentration camps and thousands of Jewish women were sent to local jails, fines were placed on the Jews to repair the businesses. . -
Einsatzgruppen Starts
The Einsatzgruppen were mobile killing squads that was responsible for the death of about 1,500,000 Jews. This group affected the victims (Jews) because they were being killed, but it also affected their personal mental health because they had to deal with the fact that they were murdering people. -
St. Louis Ship (with Jews)
This was a ship with more than 900 Jews that were headed for Cuba, but they got denied from there as well as from the US and Canada.This impacted all of the people on the boat because they thought they were getting taken out of a bad situation but got sent right back to it. -
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Germany invades Poland
Germany invaded Poland and this was the start of World War 2. When Germany invaded Poland this affected European countries because they became worried of Hitler’s power and realized they needed to take action. -
Yellow Star for German Jews
German Jews were forced to wear identification badges which were the star of david. This affected the Jews because wherever they went people would know so they would be discriminated against and targeted. -
Madagascar Plan presented
This was a plan to have the entire Jewish population of Europe relocated to the island of madagascar. This would affect the jewish population because they would be kicked out of their homes and all of their property would be taken away. -
Auschwitz Opens
Auschwitz was a death camp opened in Germany and was the largest of the Nazi concentration/death camps in Europe. Mainly the Jews and and some other groups were impacted because they were marched/worked to death, gassed, burned, and experimented on at this camp. -
Lodz Ghetto Opens
Nazi Germany established ghetto for polish and roma jews, this was the 2nd largest ghetto in Germany. This affected the Jews forced to live in these ghettos because they were forced to pay for things that were taken away from them and they were trapped in these places. -
The Commissar Order
Germany military leaders systematically persecuted and murdered soviet political commissars.This would impact the Soviet Political Commissars as they had to endure hard condition and face the fear of death. -
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Babi Yar
Babi Yar was the massacre of about 34,000 jewish people near the Ukraine and Kiev. The Jews and some Soviet officials were impacted because they were marched to the Babi Yar ravine, stripped naked, and gunned down by Nazi officials. -
Wannsee Conference
Wannsee Conference was a meeting of high ranking government officials to coordinate putting in place the “Final Solution”. This impacts the jewish community because things were about to get progressively worse many would be killed and sent to concentration/ death camps -
Creation of the Zigeunerlager
The Nazis believed that Gypsies should be exterminated/isolated because they were enemies of the Third Reich, so they were sent to Zigeunerlager (a gypsy family camp in Auschwitz). This affected the gypsy families because they were now equal to jews and would have to submit to the same punishments as them. -
Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz
Josef Mengele (the Angel of Death) killed many Jews in his short time at Auschwitz by forcing them to be tested on in his cruel and torturous experiments. He impacted Jews by being almost directly responsible for 400,000 deaths in the Auschwitz concentration camp. -
Himmler orders Liquidation of Ghettos
Soviet ghettos were liquidated to kill all of the remaining surviving Jews in the Soviet territories. This affected the Jews because the "healthy" Jews were forced to destroy the camp and the sick Jews were killed. It also showed the rest of Europe that the Nazis knew the end of the war was coming. -
Last Gassing at Auschwitz
Heinrich Himmler order gassing to be stopped after the liberation of majdanek and crematorium IV being destroyed by prisoners. This impacted the Jews because they had less fear to die in this way, it also was bringing them closer to liberation. -
Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz
The SS chief Himmler Heinrich ordered the prisoners to destroy auschwitz to hide the evidence of mass killings. This impacted the Jews because they were the ones that had to blow up the camp, and it affected Hitler’s pride because blowing up the camp meant that he was about to accept defeat in the world's eyes. -
Liberation of Auschwitz
The soviet union came to Auschwitz and liberated 7,000 prisoners that were mostly sick or dying. This affected those prisoners and the soviet union, the prisoners lives were saved and the soviet union was able to help end this tragedy and was winning over Hitler. -
Hitler commits suicide
Hitler commited suicide (by drinking cyanide and shooting himself) in an underground bunker when he knew that Germany was going to be defeated in WW2. When Hitler committed suicide it affected the military because they lost their leader that built up the army, and it affected germany as a whole because they lost the person they believed in and their figure of nationalism. -
International Military Tribunal
These trials were held in Nuremberg and 24 Nazi leaders were on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity. This affected the families of the Jews that were killed because now the victims were being justified, and the murderers are getting punished for their actions. -
Adolf Eichmann Captured
A nazi war criminal (Previously one of Hitler’s SS officers who came up with the “final solution to the Jewish question”) named Adolf Eichmann was captured by the Israeli agents in Argentina. Adolf Eichmann was impacted because he was hanged after his capture, and his death also positively impacted the Jewish. -
Josef Mengele dies
Josef Mengele escaped punishment for his actions by fleeing to South America, and eventually died by a stroke. His death not only affected himself but gave justice to the Jews that had been killed.