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jews in germany are not allowed to be outdoors after 8pm in winter/ 9pm in summer -
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Great Britain and France declear war on Germany. -
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Soviet troops invade eastern Poland. -
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German Jews are forbidden to own wireless (radio) sets. -
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Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland. Over two million Jews reside in Nazi controlled areas, leaving 1.3 million in the Soviet area. -
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Nazis begin euthanasia on sick and disabled in Germany. -
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Yellow stars required to be worn by Polish Jews over age 10. -
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The Krakow Ghetto is sealed off containing 70,000 Jews. -
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The Warsaw Ghetto, containing over 400,000 Jews, is sealed off. -
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The first test use of Zyklon-B gas at Auschwitz. -
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Mass killings of Jews using Zyklon-B begin at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Bunker I (the red farmhouse) in Birkenau with the bodies being buried in mass graves in a nearby meadow. -
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First trainloads of Jews from Paris arrive at Auschwitz. -
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Open pit burning of bodies begins at Auschwitz in place of burial. The decision is made to dig up and burn those already buried, 107,000 corpses, to prevent fouling of ground water. -
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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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Two hundred Jews escape from Treblinka extermination camp during a revolt. Nazis then hunt them down one by one. -
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President Roosevelt issues a statement condemning German and Japanese ongoing "crimes against humanity." -
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D-Day: Allied landings in Normandy on the coast of northern France. -
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Last use of the gas chambers at Auschwitz. -
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As Allied troops advance, the Nazis conduct death marches of concentration camp inmates away from outlying areas. -
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Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker. -
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Unconditional German surrender signed by General Alfred Jodl at Reims.