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Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000.
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Emergency powers granted to Hitler as a result of the Reichstag fire.
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German Parliament passes Enabling Act giving Hitler dictatorial powers.
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Nazis issue a Decree defining a non-Aryan as "anyone descended from non-Aryan, especially Jewish, parents or grandparents. One parent or grandparent classifies the descendant as non-Aryan...especially if one parent or grandparent was of the Jewish faith."
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Nazi Party is declared the only legal party in Germany; Also, Nazis pass Law to strip Jewish immigrants from Poland of their German citizenship.
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Nazis prohibit Jews from owning land.
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Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military.
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Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews decreed.
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Nazis destroy the synagogue in Nuremberg.
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Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass.
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Jewish pupils are expelled from all non-Jewish German schools.
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First deportation of German Jews into occupied Poland.
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France, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, and Luxembourg invasion by Nazi Party.
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The Warsaw Ghetto, containing over 400,000 Jews, is sealed off.
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German Jews ordered into forced labor.
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3,800 Jews killed during a pogrom by Lithuanians in Kovno.
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Beginning of general deportation of German Jews.
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Japanese attack United States at Pearl Harbor. The next day the U.S. and Great Britain declare war on Japan.
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First transports of Jews arrive at Majdanek.
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Beginning of German Army attack on Stalingrad in Russia.
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First resistance by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
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D-Day: Allied landings in Normandy on the coast of northern France.
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Liberation of Warsaw by the Russians.
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Americans free 33,000 from concentration camps
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Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker.
