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Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi party was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Soon after the Nazi's open their first concentration camps in Germany.
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Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Reich Chancellor). Armed forces must now swear allegiance to him.
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Nuremberg laws decreed. Marriages and relationships between Jews and Germans outlawed. The laws also stripped German Jews of their citizenship and civil rights.
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Germany defines a "Jew": anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew.
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Jewish doctors barred from practicing medicine in German institutions. Sachsenhausen concentration camp opens.
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Buchenwald concentration camp opens. It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within Germany's 1937 borders.
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Kristallnacht- program against Jews, perpetrated by SA paramilitary forces and German civilians.
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Beginning of World War II: Germany invades Poland. In the following weeks, 16.336 civilians are murdered by the Nazies in 714 localities. At least 5,000 victims were Jews.
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