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Hitler's election
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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Holocuast Events
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Hitler's election
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. -
Hitler's election 2nd time
President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Reichs Chancellor (Prime Minister). -
camps
First concentration camp, Dachau, established -
camps
Kemma concentration camp is closed -
Hitler flyin solo
President Hindenburg dies. Offices of President and Chancellor combined. Hitler becomes sole leader (Fuhrer) and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. -
Jews
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. -
Jews
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. -
Jews
Utah Senator William H. King urges the U.S. to open its doors as a haven for Jews fleeing Germany -
Posters
Opening of the Olympic Games in Berlin. The anti-Semitic posters were temporarily removed. -
Camps
Buchenwald concentration camp opens -
Jews
Beginning of the systematic take over of Jewish property. -
Jews
Decree requiring the registration and identification of Jewish industrial enterprises. Creation of lists of wealthy Jews at treasury offices and police districts. -
Jews
"Asocial-Action": Arrest of all "previously convicted" Jews, including those prosecuted for traffic violations, and committing them to concentration camps (approx. 1,500 people). -
Camps
Ravensbruck concentration camp for women established. -
Jews
First introduction of wearing of the Star of David in Wloclawek, Poland -
Camp in progress
Himmler directive to establish a concentration camp at Auschwitz -
Camps/Jews
"Aktion Burckel": Deportation of Jews from Alsace-Lorraine, Saarland, and Baden to Southern France, then in 1942, to Auschwitz. -
Jews
Induction of German Jews into forced labor -
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Introduction of the wearing of the Star of David into the Baltic countries. -
Jews
Extermination camp Belzec established in Poland to murder Jews from Lublin, the Lublin district, and Galicia. 600,000 Jews were murdered there. -
Jews
Extermination of Jews begin at Sobibor. By October 1943, 250,000 Jews had been murdered there. -
Jews
First "resettlements" in Bialystok ghetto in Poland; 1,000 Jews killed on the spot, 10,000 deported to Treblinka -
Camps/Jews
The first new crematorium in Auschwitz- Birkenau placed into operation -
Jews
Deportation of 438,000 Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz -
Soviets/Jews/Camps
Soviet troops liberate concentration camp Majdanek. -
Sovets/Jews
Soviet troops liberate 800 Jews at Czestochowa and 870 in Lodz. -
Jews/Soviets
Liberation of 80,000 Jews in Budapest.
