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Adolf Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany.
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The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of their citizenship.
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Hitler's army invades the Rhineland.
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Further restrictions are imposed on the number of Jewish students attending German schools.
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Kristallnacht ("Night of Broken Glass"): Nazi organized nation-wide pogroms result in the burning of hundreds of synagogues; the looting and destruction of many Jewish homes, schools, and community offices; vandalism; and the looting of 7,500 Jewish stores. Many Jews are beaten, and more than 90 are killed. Thirty-thousand Jewish men are arrested and imprisoned in concentration camps. Several thousand Jewish women are arrested and sent to local jails. This is followed by a punitive fine to be pa
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Cuba and the United States refuse to accept Jewish refugees aboard the ship S.S. St. Louis, which is forced to return to Europe.
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Anti-Jewish laws are passed by France's Vichy Government.
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The German army invades North Africa.
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German Jews above the age of six are forced to wear a yellow Star of David sewed on the left side of their clothes with the word "Jude" printed in black.
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Nearly 34,000 Jews are murdered by mobile killing squads at Babi Yar, near Kiev in the Ukraine.
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First group of German and Austrian Jews are deported to ghettos in eastern Europe.
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Nazi "extermination" camps located in occupied Poland at Auschwitz, Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, and Majdanek-Lublin begins mass murder of Jews in gas chambers.
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16 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto initiate resistance to deportation by the Germans to the death camps.
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The inmates at Treblinka rebel.
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Nazis empty Auschwitz and start prisoners on "death marches" to Germany.
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Troops from the United States liberate Mauthausen concentration camp.
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