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Adolf Hitler addressed the first session of the German Parliament (Reichstag) following his appointment as chancellor.
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A boycott sign posted on the window of a Jewish owned department store by Nazis but many Germans continued to enter the Jewish stores so, it was called off in about 24 hrs.
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The Race laws issued in September restricted future German citizenship to those of "German or kindred Blood," and excluded those deemed to be "racially" Jewish or Roma (Gypsy).
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Following the incorporation of Austria by Nazi Germany in March 1938, and the unleashing of a wave of humiliation, terror, and confiscation, many Austrian Jews attempted to leave the country.
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The Nazi regime unleashed orchestrated anti-Jewish violence across greater Germany.
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Passenger Ship St. Louis, sailed from Germany to Cuba carrying 937 passengers, most of them Jews. Little did they know that the Cuban government had revoked their landing certificates, so they had to return to Europe.
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Sections of Warsaw lay in ruins following the invasion and conquest of Poland by the German military begun in September 1939 that propelled Europe into world War ll.
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By the end of 1942, however, the Allies were on the offensive and ultimately drove back the German forces.