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  • Rosevelt was elected president of the united states

    Rosevelt was elected president of the united states

    Rosevelt was elected president of the united states
  • Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.

    Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.

  • undersiables sent to camps

    Homeless, alcoholic and unemployed people were sent to concentration camps
  • jews banned

    jews banned

    Jews are banned from the German Labor Front.
  • jewish persicution

    jewish persicution

    An order was issued which prohibited Jewish people from having health insurance
  • germany votes

    Hitler receives a 90 percent 'Yes' vote from German voters approving his new powers.
  • jews banned from military

    jews banned from military

    Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military.
  • race laws decreed

    Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews decreed.
  • gestapo above law

    gestapo above law

    The German Gestapo is placed above the law.
  • Nazis set up homosexuality and abortion offices

    Nazis set up homosexuality and abortion offices

    Nazis set up an Office for Combating Homosexuality and Abortions (by healthy women).
  • jews banned from many jobs

    jews banned from many jobs

    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.
  • Nazi Troops Enter Austria

    Nazi Troops Enter Austria

    Nazi troops enter Austria, which has a population of 200,000 Jews, mainly living in Vienna.
  • ethernal jew

    ethernal jew

    'Eternal Jew' travelling exhibition opens in Munich.
  • Nazis enter austria

    Nazis enter austria

    Nazi troops enter Austria, which has a population of 200,000 Jews, mainly living in Vienna.
  • Nazis fine jews

    Nazis fine jews

    Nazis fine Jews one billion marks for damages related to Kristallnacht
  • Jews give gold and silver to nazis

    Jews give gold and silver to nazis

    Nazis force Jews to hand over all gold and silver items.
  • Adolf Eichmann takes over

    Adolf Eichmann takes over

    Adolf Eichmann takes over section IV B4 of the Gestapo dealing solely with Jewish affairs and evacuations.
  • new concentration camp

    new concentration camp

    Nazis choose the town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in Poland near Krakow as the site of a new concentration camp.
  • Warsaw Ghetto sealed off

    Warsaw Ghetto sealed off

    The Warsaw Ghetto, containing over 400,000 Jews, is sealed off.
  • Jewish hostages are deported

    Jewish hostages are deported

    430 Jewish hostages are deported from Amsterdam after a Dutch Nazi is killed by Jews.
  • U.S. declares war

    U.S. declares war

    United States declares war on Japan and Germany.
  • extermination begins

    extermination begins

    Extermination begins in Belzec; by end of 1942 600,000 Jews murdered.
  • extermination ends

    extermination ends

    Exterminations at Belzec cease after an estimated 600,000 Jews have been murdered. The camp is then dismantled, plowed over and planted.
  • the first resistance begins

    the first resistance begins

    First resistance by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.