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1933
After taking power in 1933, the Nazis had concentrated on silencing their political opponents- communist's, socialist's, liberals, and anyone else who spoke out against the government. -
Persecution Begins
Hitler took power in Germany, he orders all "non-Aryans" to be removed form government jobs. -
1935
The Nuremburg Laws stripped Jews of their German citizenship, job, and property. -
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November 9-10, 1938
Became known as Kristallnacht, or "night of broken glass." Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany and Australia. -
1939 (St. Louis)
Official indifference to the plight of Germany's Jews was in evidence in the case of the ship St. Louis. -
1939 (The Final Solution)
Only about a quarter million Jews remained in Germany. But other nations that Hitler occupied had millions more. -
1941
The first Chelmno began operating in 1941-before the meeting at Wannsee. Each camp had several huge gas chambers in which many as 12,000 people could be killed a day. -
1942
At a meeting help in Wannsee, a lakeside suburb near Berlin, Hitler's top officials agreed to begin a new slaughter and starvation they would ass a third method of killing- murder by poison gas.