Walking Through the Holocaust

  • Adolf Hitler is appointed as Chancellor of Germany.

    Adolf Hitler is appointed as Chancellor of Germany.
    Adolf Hitler wins Chancellor of Germany. Hjalmar Schacht and Fritz Thyssen, wrote to Hindenburg, urging him to appoint Hitler as leader of a government "independent from parliamentary parties" which could turn into a movement that would "enrapture millions of people.
  • Nazis start a boycott on Jewish shops adn businesses.

    Nazis start a boycott on Jewish shops adn businesses.
    Antisemitism in Germany grew increasingly respectable after the first world war and was most prevalent in the universities. By 1921, the German student union, the Deutschen Hochschulring, barred Jews from membership. Since the bar was racial, it included Jews who had converted to Christianity. The bar was challenged by the government leading to a referendum in which 76% of students voted for the exclusion.
  • The Gestapo is created

    The Gestapo is created
    The actual term 'Gestapo' was supposedly created by a Berlin postal official who wanted a name that would fit on a regulation-sized postal rubber stamp. Gestapo was derived from seven letters within the full name Geheime Staats Polizei. Unknowingly, the postal official had invented one of the most notorious names in history.
  • Nazi Party is the only legal party in Germany

    Nazi Party is the only legal party in Germany
    Nazis pass Law to strip Jewish immigrants from Poland of their German citizenship. The party was founded out of the current of the far-right and racist German völkisch nationalist movement and the violent anti-communist Freikorps paramilitary culture that fought against the uprisings of communist revolutionaries in post-World War I Germany. The party was created by Anton Drexler as a means to draw workers away from communism and into völkisch nationalism.
  • Nazis prohibit Jews from owning land.

    Nazis prohibit Jews from owning land.
    Jews are prohibited from owning shops, mail order firms, or branches, and from owning an independent craft firm. They are further prohibited from offering goods or business services at markets, exhibitions, or trade fairs of any kind. A Jew can no longer be a factory director, a leading official, or a member of a cooperative.
  • Nazis pass a Law against Habitual and Dangerous Criminals, which allows beggars, the homeless, alcoholics and the unemployed to be sent to concentration camps.

    Nazis pass a Law against Habitual and Dangerous Criminals, which allows beggars, the homeless, alcoholics and the unemployed to be sent to concentration camps.
    The foundation of the National Socialist worldview is the knowledge of human inequality. No one will likely disagree with this as long as we stick to physical appearance. It is obvious that the “red skins,” the “yellow people,” the Negroes and the whites are very different. And all whites are not the same. The careful observer can find differences in physical size and shape. The color of the eyes, hair, and skin also varies greatly.
  • Jews not allowed national health insurance.

    Jews not allowed national health insurance.
    The Jews were not allowed health insurance because the Germans thought they would take all the health care away and not have any left for the Germans.
  • The SS (Schutzstaffel) is made an independent organization from the SA.

    The SS (Schutzstaffel) is made an independent organization from the SA.
    The SS grew from a small paramilitary unit to a powerful force that served as the Führer's "Praetorian Guard", the Nazi Party's "Protection Squadron" and a force that, fielding almost a million men (both on the front lines and as political police), managed to exert as much political influence in the Third Reich as the Wehrmacht (Germany's regular armed forces).
  • Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military.

    The Nazis banned the Jews from going into the military. They were not allowed because they would take away all the needs the Germans needed. I.e: food, clothes, weapns, etc.
  • The German Gestapo is placed above the law.

    The German Gestapo is now the law and the rulers. Everyone has to bow down to them and listen to them.