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Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Von Hindenburg.
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The first official Nazi concentration camp opens in Dachau near Munich
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Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses.
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These Laws bar jews from holding Civil Service,University or State jobs.
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The Gestapo (Secret State Police) is established by Herman Goering, minister of Prussia.
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Public burnings of books written by Jews, political opposers, and others not approved by the state.
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Leader and Reich Chancellor. Armed Forces swear to him
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first anti-Jewish racial laws enacted; Jews no longer considered German citizens; Jews could not marry Aryans; nor could they fly the German flag.
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Anyone with three jewish grandparents or two grandparents who identifies as Jewish
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Jewish doctor barred from pratice and German facilities
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Germany marches on Rhineland
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Reichführer SS Himmler appointed to chief of German Police
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Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp opens
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Buchenwald Concentration camp Opens
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Jews must register all property inside the reich.
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Flossenburg Concentration Camp Opens
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Italy enacts sweeping antisemitic laws
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Mauthausen concentration camp opens in Austria
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Great Britain and France agree to German occupation of the Sudetenland, previously western Czechoslovakia.
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Following request by Swiss authorities, Germans mark all Jewish passports with a large letter "J" to restrict Jews from immigrating to Switzerland
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anti-Jewish pogrom in Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland; 200 synagogues destroyed; 7,500 Jewish shops looted; 30,000 male Jews sent to concentration camps
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Decree forcing all Jews to transfer retail businesses to Aryan hands.
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All Jewish pupils expelled from German schools
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One billion mark fine levied against German Jews for the destruction of property during Kristallnacht
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Beginning of World War II:Germany invades Poland. In the following weeks, 16.336 civilians are murdered by the Nazies in 714 localities. At least 5,000 victims were Jews.
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First Polish ghetto established in Piotrkow.
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Jews in German-occupied Poland forced to wear an arm band or yellow star.
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Concentration camp established at Auschwitz.
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Battle of Britain begins.
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Warsaw Ghetto sealed: ultimately contained 500,000 people.
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January 21-26: Anti-Jewish riots in Romania, hundreds of Jews butchered.
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Germany invades the Soviet Union.
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Dozens thousands of Russian and Jews are murdered by the Einzatzgruppen
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Heydrich appointed by Göring to implement the "Final Solution".
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Establishment of Auschwitz II (Birkenau) for the extermination of Jews; Gypsies, Poles, Russians, and others were also murdered at the camp.
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Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
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Chelmno (Kulmhof) extermination camp begins operations: 340,000 Jews, 20,000 Poles and Czechs murdered by April 1943.
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United States declares war on Japan and Germany.
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German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad
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Wannsee Conference in Berlin: Heydrich outlines plan to murder Europe's Jews.
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Liquidation of Krakow ghetto
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Extermination by gas begins in Sobibor killing center
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Deportation of Jews from Germany, Greece and Norway to killing centers; Jewish partisan movement organized in forests near Lublin.
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Himmler orders the liquidation of all ghettos in Poland and the Soviet Union
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Nazis begin deporting Hungarian Jews; by June 27, 380,000 sent to Auschwitz.
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Hitler commits suicide
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