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1933
The Nazis had concentrated on silencing their political opponents communists, socialists, liberals, and anyone else who spoke out against the government. -
1933
Hitler took power in Germany, he ordered all "non-Aryans" to be removed from government jobs. -
1935
The Nuremberg laws stripped Jews of their German citizenship, jobs, and property -
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November 9-10, 1938
Known as Kristallnacht, or "Night of Broken Glass." Nazi storm troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany and Austria. -
1939
German ocean liner passed Miami in 1939. -
1939
A quarter million Jews remained in Germany -
1941
The first, Chelmno, began operating -
1942
At a meeting held in Wannsee, a lakeside suburb near Berlin, Hitler's top officials agreed to begin a new phase of the mass murder of Jews