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Rosevelt was elected president of the united states
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Homeless, alcoholic and unemployed people were sent to concentration camps
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Jews are banned from the German Labor Front.
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An order was issued which prohibited Jewish people from having health insurance
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Hitler receives a 90 percent 'Yes' vote from German voters approving his new powers.
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Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military.
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Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews decreed.
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The German Gestapo is placed above the law.
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Nazis set up an Office for Combating Homosexuality and Abortions (by healthy women).
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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.
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Nazi troops enter Austria, which has a population of 200,000 Jews, mainly living in Vienna.
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'Eternal Jew' travelling exhibition opens in Munich.
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Nazi troops enter Austria, which has a population of 200,000 Jews, mainly living in Vienna.
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Nazis fine Jews one billion marks for damages related to Kristallnacht
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Nazis force Jews to hand over all gold and silver items.
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Adolf Eichmann takes over section IV B4 of the Gestapo dealing solely with Jewish affairs and evacuations.
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Nazis choose the town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in Poland near Krakow as the site of a new concentration camp.
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The Warsaw Ghetto, containing over 400,000 Jews, is sealed off.
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430 Jewish hostages are deported from Amsterdam after a Dutch Nazi is killed by Jews.
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United States declares war on Japan and Germany.
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Extermination begins in Belzec; by end of 1942 600,000 Jews murdered.
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Exterminations at Belzec cease after an estimated 600,000 Jews have been murdered. The camp is then dismantled, plowed over and planted.
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First resistance by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.