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Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany
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40,000 SA and SS men are sworn in as auxiliary Police.
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Nazis burn Reichstag building
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Emergency powers granted to Hitler as a result of the fire
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German Parliament passes Enabling Act
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Nazis open Daachau concentration camp near Munich.
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Nazis stage boycott of Jewish shops and businesses
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Nazis issue a Decree that defines a non-Aryan
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Burning of books in Berlin and throughout Germany
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Gestapo is born.
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Jews are bannded from the German Labor Front
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Jews not allowed national health inssurance.
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Jews are prohibited from getting legal qualifications
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Hitler recieves a 90% 'yes' vote from German voters approving his new powers.
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Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military.
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Nuremberg Race Laws agaust Jews decreed.
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The German Gestapo is placed above the law
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Nazis occupy the Rhineland
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Olympic games in Berlin
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Nazis set up an Office for Combating Homosexuality and Abortions
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Jews are banned from many professional occupations.
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'Eternal Jew' travelling exhibition opens in Munich.
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First resistance by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
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Nazi troops enter Austria, which has a population of 200,000 Jews, mainly living in Vienna. Hitler announces Anschluss (union) with Austria.
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Nazis order Jews over age 15 to apply for identity cards from the police, to be shown on demand to any police officer
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Nazi troops occupy the Sudetenland
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Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass.
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Hermann Göring takes charge of resolving the "Jewish Question."
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SS leader Reinhard Heydrich is ordered by Göring to speed up the emigration of Jews.
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Adolf Eichmann takes over section IV B4 of the Gestapo dealing solely with Jewish affairs and evacuations
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Nazis choose the town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in Poland near Krakow as the site of a new concentration camp
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The Warsaw Ghetto, containing over 400,000 Jews, is sealed off.
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Quote from Nazi newspaper, Der Stürmer, published by Julius Streicher - "Now judgment has begun and it will reach its conclusion only when knowledge of the Jews has been erased from the earth."
A pogrom in Romania results in over 2,000 Jews killed. -
During a cabinet meeting, Hans Frank, Gauleiter of Poland, states - "Gentlemen, I must ask you to rid yourselves of all feeling of pity. We must annihilate the Jews wherever we find them and wherever it is possible in order to maintain there the structure
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Wannsee Conference to coordinate the "Final Solution."
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Sterilization experiments on women at Birkenau begin.
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The chief surgeon at Auschwitz reports that 106 castration operations have been performed.
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Russian troops reach former Polish border.
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Oskar Schindler saves 1200 Jews by moving them from Plaszow labor camp to his hometown of Brunnlitz.
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Russians liberate Budapest, freeing over 80,000 Jews.
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Opening of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal.
