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1.
Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany -
3.
Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses -
2.
Dachau concentration camp opens -
4.
Laws for Reestablishment of the Civil Service barred Jews from holding civil service, university, and state positions -
5.
Gestapo established -
6.
Public burning of books written by Jews, political dissidents, and others not approved by the state -
7.
Law stripping East European Jewish immigrants of German citizenship -
8.
Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Reich Chancellor). Armed forces must now swear allegiance to him -
9.
Jews barred from serving in the German armed forces -
10.
"Nuremberg Laws": anti-Jewish racial laws enacted; Jews no longer considered German citizens; Jews could not marry Aryans; nor could they fly the German flag -
11.
Germany defines a "Jew": anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew -
15.
Sachsenhausen concentration camp opens -
12.
Jewish doctors were barred from practicing medicine in German institutions -
13.
Germans march into the Rhineland, previously demilitarized by the Versailles Treaty -
14.
Himmler appointed the Chief of German Police -
16.
Hitler and Mussolini form Rome-Berlin Axis -
17.
Buchenwald concentration camp opens -
18.
Anschluss (incorporation of Austria): all antisemitic decrees immediately applied in Austria -
19.
Mandatory registration of all property held by Jews inside the Reich -
20.
Evian Conference held in Evian, France on the problem of Jewish refugees -
21.
Adolf Eichmann establishes the Office of Jewish Emigration in Vienna to increase the pace of forced emigration -
22.
Italy enacts sweeping antisemitic laws -
23.
Munich Conference: Great Britain and France agree to the German occupation of the Sudetenland, previously western Czechoslovakia -
24.
Following a request by Swiss authorities, Germans mark all Jewish passports with a large letter "J" to restrict Jews from immigrating to Switzerland -
25.
17,000 Polish Jews living in Germany were expelled; Poles refused to admit them; 8,000 are stranded in the frontier village of Zbaszyn