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Since a majority (over 50 percent) was required by German law for the election of a president, a re-run presidential election was held in which incumbent president Hindenburg wins with 53 percent of the vote. Adolf Hitler increases his popular vote to 36.8 percent.
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Presidential election under Weimar Republic in Germany gives 30.1 percent of the vote to Adolf Hitler, head of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers Party, i.e. Nazis). The incumbent president, Field Marshall Hindenburg, receives 49.6 percent.
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President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Reichs Chancellor (Prime Minister).
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First concentration camp, Dachau, established
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Kemma concentration camp is closed
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President Hindenburg dies. Offices of President and Chancellor combined. Hitler becomes sole leader (Fuhrer) and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.
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Defense Law: "Aryan heritage" as a pre- requisite for military duty. During the summer "Jews Not Wanted" posters start to appear on restaurants, shops, and on village entrance signs.
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National Day of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers Party). Parliament passed, during a special session, the anti-Semitic "Nuremberg Laws," the "National Citizens Law," and the "Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor." These laws were the basis for the exclusion of Jews from all public business life and for the reclassification of the political rights of Jewish citizens.
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Utah Senator William H. King urges the U.S. to open its doors as a haven for Jews fleeing Germany
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Opening of the Olympic Games in Berlin. The anti-Semitic posters were temporarily removed.
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Buchenwald concentration camp opens
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Beginning of the systematic take over of Jewish property.
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Decree requiring the registration and identification of Jewish industrial enterprises. Creation of lists of wealthy Jews at treasury offices and police districts.
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"Asocial-Action": Arrest of all "previously convicted" Jews, including those prosecuted for traffic violations, and committing them to concentration camps (approx. 1,500 people).
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Ravensbruck concentration camp for women established.
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First introduction of wearing of the Star of David in Wloclawek, Poland
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Himmler directive to establish a concentration camp at Auschwitz
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"Aktion Burckel": Deportation of Jews from Alsace-Lorraine, Saarland, and Baden to Southern France, then in 1942, to Auschwitz.
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Induction of German Jews into forced labor
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Introduction of the wearing of the Star of David into the Baltic countries.
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Extermination camp Belzec established in Poland to murder Jews from Lublin, the Lublin district, and Galicia. 600,000 Jews were murdered there.
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Extermination of Jews begin at Sobibor. By October 1943, 250,000 Jews had been murdered there.
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First "resettlements" in Bialystok ghetto in Poland; 1,000 Jews killed on the spot, 10,000 deported to Treblinka
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The first new crematorium in Auschwitz- Birkenau placed into operation
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Deportation of 438,000 Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz
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Soviet troops liberate concentration camp Majdanek.
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Soviet troops liberate 800 Jews at Czestochowa and 870 in Lodz.
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Liberation of 80,000 Jews in Budapest.
