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Hitler gains power in Germany
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Nazis lose support in parliamentary elections
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Burning of books in Berlin and throughout Germany
Nazis burn books in Germany -
Nazis Prohibit Jews From Owning Land
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Jews banned from the German Labor Front
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Jews not allowed national health insurance
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Jews are prohibited from getting legal qualifications.
Jews are prohibited from getting legal qualifications. -
Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military
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Nazis pass law allowing forced abortions
Nazis pass law allowing forced abortions on women to prevent them from passing on hereditary diseases -
The German Gestapo is placed above the law
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SS Deathshead division is established
SS Deathshead division is established to guard concentration camps -
Jews are banned from many professional occupations
Jews are banned from many professional occupations including teaching Germans, and from being accountants or dentists. They are also denied tax reductions and child allowances. -
Buchenwald concentration camp opens
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Nazis order Jews to register wealth and property
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Nazis order Jews over age 15 to apply for identity cards
Nazis order Jews over age 15 to apply for identity cards from the police, to be shown on demand to any police officer. -
German Jews denied the right to hold government jobs
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Great Britain and France declare war on Germany
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Nazis choose the town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in Poland
Nazis choose the town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in Poland near Krakow as the site of a new concentration camp. -
First deportation of German Jews into occupied Poland
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In occupied Poland near Lublin
In occupied Poland near Lublin, Majdanek concentration camp becomes operational. -
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
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. -
Open pit burning of bodies begins at Auschwitz in place of burial
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. -
First resistance by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto
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Nazis order all Gypsies arrested
Nazis order all Gypsies arrested and sent to extermination camps -
The Danish Underground helps transport 7,220 Danish Jews
The Danish Underground helps transport 7,220 Danish Jews to safety in Sweden by sea. -
The number of Jews killed by SS Einsatzgruppen passes one million
The number of Jews killed by SS Einsatzgruppen passes one million. Nazis then use special units of slave laborers to dig up and burn the bodies to remove all traces. -
A Jewish inmate escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau
A Jewish inmate, Siegfried Lederer, escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau and makes it safely to Czechoslovakia. He then warns the Elders of the Council at Theresienstadt about Auschwitz. -
Rosenberg orders Hay Action
Rosenberg orders Hay Action, the kidnapping of 40,000 Polish children aged ten to fourteen for slave labor in the Reich. -
Anne Frank and family are arrested in Amsterdam
Anne Frank and family are arrested by the Gestapo in Amsterdam, then sent to Auschwitz. Anne and her sister Margot are later sent to Bergen-Belsen where Anne dies of typhus on March 15, 1945. -
Last use of the gas chambers at Auschwitz.
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As Allied troops advance, the Nazis conduct death marches
As Allied troops advance, the Nazis conduct death marches of concentration camp inmates away from outlying areas. -
Nazis evacuate 66,000 from Auschwitz.
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Russian troops liberate Auschwitz.
Russian troops liberate Auschwitz. By this time, an estimated 2,000,000 persons, including 1,500,000 Jews, have been murdered there. -
Approximately 40,000 prisoners freed at Bergen-Belsen
Approximately 40,000 prisoners freed at Bergen-Belsen by the British, who report "both inside and outside the huts was a carpet of dead bodies, human excreta, rags and filth." -
Berlin is reached by Russian troops.
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Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps.
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Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker.
