WW2 Genocide Timeline

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  • Schutzstaffel Organized

    Hitler organized a major paramilitary organization. This affected Germans.

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor

    Hitler got more power in Germany by becoming Chancellor. Affected Germany.

  • Hitler Claims Emergency Powers

    Hitler acquires emergency powers from Parliament giving him even more power. Affected Germany

  • Boycott of Jewish Businesses

    Germans boycotted Jewish businesses. It affected Jewish entrepeneurs.

  • Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases

    Sterilized people with chronic disabilities so that their kids don’t get them. Affected disabled people.

  • Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals

    It allowed brutal methods to prevent crimes like castrating rapists. Affected Criminals.

  • Nuremberg Laws

    Laws that restricted the rights of Jews. This affected German Jews.

  • Nazi’s Occupy Rhineland

    Hitler occupies Rhineland which violated the Treaty of Versailles. Affects all of Europe

  • Reichszentrale is created

    Nazis created an office combating homosexuality and abortion.
    This affected gay people and women.

  • Kristallnacht

    German Nazis looted and killed Jewish people in Germany. It affected German Jews.
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    Yellow Stars for German Jews.

    Badges that German Jews were ordered to wear in public to identify them as jewish. Affected German Jews.

  • St. Louis Ship

    This was a ship that held almost a thousand Jews running from the Third Reich. This affected German Jews because they escaped.

  • Germany invades Poland

    German army invades Poland. It affected the Poles and Jews there.

  • Auschwitz Opens

    Auschwitz opens. This affects mostly Jews and Polish people.

  • Madagascar Plan presented

    Hitler presented a plan to move all the Jews to Madagascar. It affected Jews and Hitler.

  • Lodz Ghetto Opens

    Ghetto opens that houses Jews. This affected Jews.

  • Babi Yar

    It was a reviene where 34000 jewish people were killed. Jewish people were affected.

  • The Commisair Order

    Hitler ordered all Soviet Commissars to be shot. This affected Soviets.

  • Josef Mengele Arrives at Auschwitz

    He arrives at Auschwitz. This affected the people in Auschwitz.

  • Einsatzgruppen starts

    Nazi mobile killing squads, they find any Jews and round them up, then kill them. Affected Jews.

  • Himmler Orders Liquidation of ghettos

    Himmler liquidates the ghettos. Affected the Jews living in the ghettos.

  • Wannsee Conference

    This was a meeting of Nazi government officials of Nazis and schutzstaffels. This affected Nazis and Schutstaffels

  • Last Gassing at Auschwitz

    The last of the Jews at Auschwitz were killed in the gas chambers. Affected the prisoners at Auschwitz.

  • Himmler Orders Destruction of Auschwitz

    Auschwitz gets destroyed. Affected Jews and germans.

  • Liberation of Auschwitz

    The soviets liberated over 7000 prisoners. This affected the prisoners there and the Germans.

  • Hitler Commits Suicide

    Hitler kills himself after the war. Affects Nazis mostly and the minority groups Hitler hated.

  • International Military Tribunal

    Trial of 21 Nazi German leaders on trial for crimes against peace, and war crimes. . Affected Jews and Germans

  • Adolf Eichmann Captured

    Adolf Eichmann, a nazi war criminal was captured.The families of the people killed in the holocaust were affected because they finally got justice