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Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany
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The Nazis open a couple concentration camps called Dachau, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, and Ravensbrück (only for women).
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The Nazis prohibit jews from owning land. They had their land tooken away from them by the Nazis.
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The Jews are deprived of their national health care. Jews can no longer get health care.
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Hitler receives a 90% vote rate from other germans that approve on his new laws and rules.
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The jewish people are not allowed to serve in the military. If they are already serving, they get kicked out.
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Nazis pass law allowing forced abortions on women to prevent them from passing on hereditary diseases.
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SS Deathshead division is established to guard concentration camps.
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Heinrich Himmler is appointed chief of the German Police.
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Jews are prohibited from all legal practices.
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Warsaw is cut off by the German Army.
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Evacuation of Jews from Vienna.
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Yellow stars required to be worn by Polish Jews over age 10.
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Yellow stars required to be worn by Polish Jews over age 10.
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Newly built gas chamber/crematory IV opens at Auschwitz.
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Exterminations at Chelmno cease. The camp will be reactivated in the spring of 1944 to liquidate ghettos. In all, Chelmno will total 300,000 deaths.
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more jews arrive at camps
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- Jews from Hungary arrive at Auschwitz. Eichmann arrives to personally oversee and speed up the extermination process. By May 24, an estimated 100,000 have been gassed. Between May 16 and May 31, the SS report collecting 88 pounds of gold and white metal from the teeth of those gassed. By the end of June, 381,661 persons - half of the Jews in Hungary - arrive at Auschwitz.
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Two hundred Jews escape from Treblinka extermination camp during a revolt. Nazis then hunt them down one by one.
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The Danish Underground helps transport 7,220 Danish Jews to safety in Sweden by sea.
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Jews in Rome rounded up, with over 1,000 sent to Auschwitz
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Russian troops reach former Polish border.
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First transports of Jews from Athens to Auschwitz, totaling 5,200 persons
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D-Day: Allied landings in Normandy on the coast of northern France.
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Nazis evacuate 66,000 from Auschwitz.
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Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker. (on my birthday)
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Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps.
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Theresienstadt taken over by the Red Cross.