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Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany
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The first concentration camp was opened at Dachau in Germany
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Germans were told not to buy from Jewish shops or businesses
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Homeless, alcoholic and unemployed people were sent to concentration camps
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An order was issued which prohibited Jewish people from having health insurance
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The Nuremberg Laws were introduced. These laws were designed to take away Jewish rights of citizenship and included orders that: Jews are no longer allowed to be German citizens. Jews cannot marry non-Jews. Jews cannot have sexual relations with non-Jews.
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Austrian Jews Persecuted
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Synagogue in Munich was destroyed
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Kewish passports had to ne stamped with a letter J.
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A turning point for how jews were treated.
Approximately 100 Jews were murdered, 20,000 German and Austrian Jews arrested and sent to camps, Hundreds of synagogues burned, and the Windows of Jewish shops all over Germany and Austria smashed. -
jews made to pay for Kristallnacht
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jewish children were banned from German schools
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Austrian and Czechoslavakian Jews were sent to Poland.
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Jews in Poland were forced to sew yellow stars on their clothes so they could be identified.
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Auschwitz was opened. The most notorious death camp.
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Warsaw Ghetto was sealed off. There were approx. 40,000. Jewish people inside including women ands children.
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Death squads roamed Russia 33,00 were killed in two days.
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Heydrich was chosen to implement the "final Solution"
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Chelmo was opened as a death camp
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Mass gassing began at Auschwitz.-Birkenau
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Mass Gassing of Jews from occupied countries
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Gypsyies were sent to concentration camps
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An order was issued to empty the Warsaw Ghetto and deport the inmates to Treblinka. Following the deportation of some Warsaw Jews, news leaked back to those remaining in the Ghetto of mass killings.A group of about 750 mainly young people decided that they had nothing to lose by resisting deportation. Using weapons smuggled into the Ghetto they fired on German troops who tried to round up inmates for deportation.They held out for almost a month before they were overcome.
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Evidence from the death camps was destroyed
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The gas chambers were used for the final time at Auschwitz.
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Hitler commits suicide
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Germany surrenders
