Timeline of Genocide

By 22ebutz

  • Schutzstaffel Organized

    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.

  • St. Louis Ship

    carried more than 900 jewish refugees

  • Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases

    forced sterilization on people with diseases, this effected mostly Aryan Germans

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor

    The enabling act came and President Paul von Hindenburg appointed Hitler to chancellor.

  • Hitler Claims Emergency Powers

    Hitler had to get a two-thirds vote from Parliament to get emergency powers, which would help Germany.

  • Boycott of Jewish Businesses

    Bussineses got shut down if run by Jews

  • Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminal

    A law that allows people to put others in prison if they are harmful to society.

  • Nuremberg Laws

    The Law for the Protection of German Blood prohibited marriages between Jews and Germans.

  • Nazi’s Occupy Rhineland

    Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact by sending German military forces into the Rhineland,

  • Reichszentrale is created

    Nazi Germany for the fight against homosexuality in Nazi Germany and the fight against abortion

  • Kristallnacht

    This is when things got bad and the name came from all the shattered windows that covered the streets after the jewish business were trashed and looted. This effected the Jews because they were being taken of their jobs.

  • Einsatzgruppen starts

    These were SS officers in charge of mass killings, which impacted the Jews

  • Lodz Ghetto Opens

    World War II ghetto established by the Nazi German authorities for Polish Jews and Roma following the 1939 invasion of Poland. This effected the Polish

  • Yellow Star for German Jews

    identifying badge for jewish

  • Germany invades Poland

    This was the start of WWII and affected the polish population greatly

  • Auschwitz opens

    Camps open and last for 2 years

  • Madagascar Plan presented

    a proposal by the Nazi German government to relocate the jewish population of Europe to Madagascar.

  • The Commisair Order

    guidelines for the treatment of political commissars

  • Babi Yar

    Capital of Kiev and a site of massacres carried out by German forces.

  • Creation of the Zigeunerlager

    Gypsy concentration camps

  • Wannsee Conference

    a meeting of senior government officials of Nazi Germany and Schutzstaffel leaders

  • Dr Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz

    Doctor at Aushchwitz who experimented on Jews

  • Himmler Orders Liquidation of ghettos

    Once again trying to hide evidence

  • Last Gassing at Auschwitz

    Himmler ordered for the gassing to be over with.

  • Himmler Orders Destruction of Auschwitz

    Himmler ordered this to try to hide the evidence of the gassing

  • Liberation of Auschwitz

    Russian soldiers came into the camp and found the remaining ill and dying prisoners, and forced them to march.

  • Hitler Commits Suicide

    Russians were after his chancellery, and instead of being killed by them he decided to shoot himself the day before in his underground bunker.

  • International Military Tribunal

    Nazi German leaders on charges of crimes against peace

  • Adolf Eichmann Captured

    Minister David Ben-Gurion made the decision that Eichmann should be captured and brought to Israel for trial.

  • Dr Josef Mengele Dies

    dies from a stroke