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The Treaty of Versailles ends WWI.
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Walter Rathenau, one of the most prominent Jewish political figures of the Weimar Republic, is assassinated by right-wing radicals.
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The Third Reich comes into power.
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SA and SS members stand in front of Jewish-owned businesses throughout Germany to inform the public that the proprietors of the establishments are Jewish.
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The Nazi government enacts the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service.
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Two months after Adolf Hitler's appointment as chancellor, the purge of the administration begins with legislation passed on April, 1933.
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The German government requires all Jews in Germany whose first name is not immediately recognizable as Jewish to add a "Jewish" name following their first name.
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About 17,000 Polish Jews are expelled by Germany and forced across the border with Poland.
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Herschel Grynszpan, who is 17 years-old, shot Ernst vom Rath, a German diplomat.
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The Nazi state imposes a fine of one billion Reichsmarks ($400,000,000) on the Jewish community in Germany.
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Germany invades Poland.
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Jewish Ghettos have been established to hold more Jews.
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Auschwitz I, the main camp in the Auschwitz camp complex, is the first camp established near Oswiecim. Construction began in May 1940.
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The Germans announce the establishment of a ghetto in Warsaw.
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Two weeks before the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the high command of the German armed forces issues orders to screen Soviet prisoners of war for Soviet commissars.
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Germany invades the Soviet Union.
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German mobile killing squads, called special duty units, are assigned to kill Jews during the invasion of the Soviet Union.
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Experimental gassings are carried out at the gas chamber in Auschwitz I, the main camp at Auschwitz in southern Poland.
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Jews over the age of six in Germany are required to wear a yellow, six-pointed star with the word "Jude" across the front in black, sewn to their outer clothing at all times.
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The Germans order the Jewish residents of Kiev to assemble on Melnik Street for resettlement outside the city. Jews are forced to hand over their valuables, disrobe, and move into the ravine in small groups. German killing squads and Ukrainian auxiliary units shoot them.
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Construction of Auschwitz II, or Auschwitz-Birkenau, begins in Brzezinka.
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Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S, then the U.S declares war on Germany and Italy.
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Germany and Italy declare war on the U.S, then the U.S declares war on Germany and Italy.
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Jews in the Netherlands have been systematically concentrated in the Westerbork transit camp.
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The Japanese attacked on Pear Harbor on December 7th 1942.
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The Germans decide to eliminate the Warsaw ghetto and announce new deportations in April 1943. The renewal of deportations is the signal for an armed uprising within the ghetto.
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German forces occupy Hungary on March 19, 1944. In April 1944, all Jews except those in Budapest are ordered into ghettos.
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D-Day happens.
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Twenty-three thousand Roma (Gypsies) were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and placed in a separate section of the camp.
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The Soviet army enters Auschwitz and liberates the remaining prisoners.
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Nazis surrender to the Allies.