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Schutzstaffel Organized
The SS was first Hitler's personal bodyguards. They soon after became the protection group that would carry out all of Hitler's ideas and work. They would also be the security system for the Third Reich and Hitler’s reign. The creation of The ss greatly impacted the Jews. They would be the ones mostly blamed for the mass murder of all Jews. -
Hitler becomes Chancellor
President Paul Von Hindenburg named hitler the chancellor of germany after an election. Hitler was growing in popularity and Hindenburg had no choice but to elect him. This affected the nation greatly because he take over germany completely through emergency powers. -
Hitler Claims Emergency Powers
After hitler became chancellor of germany he later legislative control of germany and claimed emergency powers. The reichstag fire caused the communist to claim that they were planning a violent uprising and they said that the only way to prevent it was for emergency legislative powers to be taken. This affected a lot of germany because it gave hitler the power that he needed. -
Boycott of Jewish Businesses
The boycott was a way for the nazis to affect germany's economy by driving jews away from it. They made it a policy for all germans to stay away from jewish shops. This greatly affected many jews and caused many to sell there shops before they went out of business. -
Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases
This law forced all people born with mental illnesses or incurable diseases be sterilized. This impacted the mentally ill the most. They had a disease that they could not help or fix, yet they were forced to be sterilized. -
Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals
This new law allows
courts to order the imprisonment of “habitual criminals” if they deem the person dangerous to society. It also provides for the castration of sex offenders.This impacted ,any people who were innocent. They were taken into captivity or killed just because of what they looked like. -
Nuremberg Laws
These laws confined Jews in Germany. They stated that even if you were not jewish, but one of your grandparents were, that you were defined as Jewish too. Also, even if your family had converted to another religion after not practicing judaism for years, they could still be a jew. This impacted all of the Jews poorly. They were treated badly and not aloud to do certain things that non Jewish could do. -
Nazi’s Occupy Rhineland
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler sends German military forces into the Rhineland, a demilitarized zone along the Rhine River in western Germany. This affects all of the other European countries because in the Treaty of Versailles it states that the Nazis could not do this. By doing this, they change the entire war and now they have a bigger advantage. -
Reichs Zentrale is created
This was the central office for combating abortion and homosexuality. This was mainly the way that Nazi officials collected data on these things. This allowed for the SS to start the mass killing of Homosexuals. This impacted the homosexual population of Europe because they would be killed just for their sexuality. -
The Night of Broken Glass
On this night violence and fighting happened with the Jews and Germans because they were angry about an assassination of a German officer by a Jewish boy. This impacted the Jews immensely. They lost thousands of lives hundreds of synagogues. -
Einsatzgruppen, starts
Special SS officers that were responsible for the mass murder of thousands of jews, roma, and political opponents.This affected these Jews, roma, and political opponents because they died. -
St. Louis Ship (with Jews)
This was a ship full of mostly German Jews fleeting the Third Reich. They were compelled to escape Hitler’s tyranny mostly because of the NIght of Broken Glass and The Nuremberg laws. However, they were not able to make their escape and had to return to Europe. Many of the Jews were very frustrated and had to return to the terrible life in Europe. -
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Germany Invades Poland
Considered to be what started world war 2. Germany invaded Poland in hopes of regaining lost territory and ultimately controlling Poland but France and Britain said they would go to war for Poland. Germany invaded anyway which initiated war. This affected many countries including the USA of later joined in the war. -
Yellow Star for German Jews
The yellows stars forcefully placed on Jews by the Nazi officials indicated the Jews in a community. This was the presage to Jews being placed in Ghettos and Concentration Camps. The impact on jews was not only to humiliate them, but it also was a signal for deportation and was a sign for segregation. -
Auschwitz opens
Auschwitz was one of the largest concentration camps that was ever opened Auschwitz was considered a detention center for political prisoners. This affected so many jews and other minority groups because many of them died in there. -
Madagascar Plan presented
This was a plan made my the Nazi party in Germany. They were planning to relocate all of the Jews in Europe to the island of Madagascar.This would have impacted the Jewish population greatly. It would force all of them to probably never see home again and move to a whole different country where their language is not spoken. -
Lodz Ghetto Opens
The Germans forced Jews into small spaces in towns called ghettos. This impacted the Jews because they were forced to leave their homes and often are split from their families. -
The Commissar Order
The Commissar Order was an order issued by the German High Command on 6 June 1941 before Operation Barbarossa. Its official name was Guidelines for the Treatment of Political Commissars. This impacted the soviet and german soldiers during World War ll. The Soviet had to be very careful because any prisoners could be shot at any time. -
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Babi Yar
Babi Yar was a massacre of nearly 34000 jewish males, females, and children.Hitler orders the extermination of all jews found in the area where this massacre occurred. This affected all of the families and who were killed during this massacre and had a massive impact on jews in neighboring areas. -
Wannsee Conference
This was a conference held outside of Berlin. It was meant to collaborate and decide the “Final Solution” for European Jews. It was deciding the fate of Jews that would eventually end in Mass murder of all Jews. This poorly impacted all Jews. They were already being treated terribly and being put in Ghettos and concentration camps. This conference would be the decision to end all of their lives just because of their beliefs or nationality. -
Creation of the Zigeunerlager
Zigeunerlager was a gypsy camp with in Auschwitz where many Roma and sinti were liquidated. Over 23 thousand men women and children were imprisoned in this camp. All of them were affected majorly by being imprisoned here. -
Dr Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz
Josef mengele was a Nazi doctor at auschwitz who conducted experiments on the prisoners that would often lead to death or serious injury for them. The affected many prisoners of auschwitz. -
Himmler Orders Liquidation of ghettos
Himmler ordered that all jews that were being held in ghettos were forced to move into concentrations to get them out of soviet occupied territories. This affected so many jews because many of them did not make it out of the concentration camps alive. -
Last Gassing at Auschwitz
At the end of october 1944 Hemric Hitler ordered that the gassing should be stopped at Auschwitz. The last selection was then held. This mainly impacted the Jews and prisoners at auschwitz. They no longer had to worry about being selected and killed. -
Himmler Orders Destruction of Auschwitz
Himmler ordered the demolition of gas chambers and crematoria in auschwitz as a way of hiding the deaths of many jews and other minority groups from the soviet forces. This affected many jews and other minorities because Himmler was trying to hide their deaths -
Liberation of Auschwitz
In early 1945 the Soviet army started to march and invade auschwitz. They started to evacuate the camp. The 7,000 prisoners that were left at the camp were rescued by soviet forces. This impacted some prisoners negatively. They were forced to march hundreds of miles and would be killed if they slowed down. However this would save many lives of ill prisoners left at the camp. -
Hitler Commits Suicide
Hitler committed suicide in his underground bunker. He cyanide capsule and then shot himself with a pistol. He was alongside his wife who had also commit suicide. This affected so many people because hitler made such an impact on the world. Even if it was a negative one. -
International Military Tribunal
24 members of the nazi party who were considered to be the most powerful. Were put on trial for several this was several months after Germany surrendered only 21 of them were actually there because three were already dead. This affected many people because they could finally feel safe knowing the major powers were not going to be free anymore. -
Adolf Eichmann captured
Adolf Eichmann was an ss officer who was captured by the Mossad in Argentina because he was found guilty of war crimes. This affected him because two years later he was hanged for these crimes. -
Dr Josef Mengele Dies
Josef died from a stroke while he was swimming which caused him to drown. He was visiting friends when this event occurred. This also wasn't the first time that he had - had a stroke. This affects himself because he died.