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Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany
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Dachau Concentration Camp opened
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One-day boycott of Jewish shops and businesses; Gestapo (German internal police) established
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Public burnings of books written by Jewish people, political dissidents and others not approved by the State
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Hitler names himself Führer and Reichskanzler (Leader and Reich Chancellor)
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Jews forbidden from joining the German Army
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Nuremberg Laws passed. Jews were no longer German citizens; Jews could not marry German citizens. They could not fly the German flag either.
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Jewish doctors banned from practising medicine in German institutions
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Note: I was not able to find the actual day the camp opened, so I just put a random day
Buchenwald Concentration Camp opens, one of the biggest camps on German soil. -
Hitler adds Austria to the growing number of places under his control.
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Italy enacts all-encompasing anti-Semetic laws
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The Munich Agreement is settled. Britain and France accepted the German takeover of part of Czechoslovakia. It was actually signed in the early hours of September 30th, but it was dated as the 29th.
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ALL Jewish passports were marked with a J, to restrict Jews from leaving the country
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17,000 Polish Jews were expelled from Germany
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This event also took place on the 10th.
Kristallnacht Decree forces all Jews to transfer retail businesses to the hands of German citizens. All Jewish students were expelled from German schools.
There was also mob violence, as many Jews were beaten to death and fire set to their buildings.
Also known as The Night of Broken Glass -
Germany invades Poland; World War II begins
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Jews in German occupied Poland forced to wear yellow star
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Germany invades and Denmark and Norway
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Germany invades Holland, Belgium, and France
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Auschwitz concentration camp established
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France surrenders to Germany
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Battle of Britain
Germany tried to bomb Britain into submission -
Germany Invades Soviet Union
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Hitler appoints Reinhard Heydrich to implement the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question"
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34000 Jews massacred at Babi Yar outside Kiev, Russia
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The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, America declares war on Japan and Germany
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Armed revolt at Sobibor extermination camp
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Warsaw ghetto uprising
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Revolt at Treblinka, Poland
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Allied invasion at Normandy, France
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Group of German officers attempt to assinate hitler
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Russians liberate Majdanek killing center
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Revolt by Sonderkommandos at Auschwitz
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Hitler commits suicide
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Germany surrenders; end of Third Reich
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First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
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Japan surrenders; end of WWII