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Max was born in 1916 around winter time.
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Four year old Liesal Meminger's baby brother is born.
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Adolf Hitler is appointed the Chancellor of Germany.
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Hitler proclaims himslef Fuhrer or the leader and also the Reich Chancellor. Armed forces must now swear allegiance to him.
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Anti-Jewish racial laws are enacted. Jews are no longer considered German citezens. Also Jews can no longer marry Aryans. Jews are not allowed to raise the German flag.
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Death collects a young boys soul and watches Liesal commit her first act of thievary. Liesal arrives at her new foster home.
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A parade of members of the NSDAP or the Nazi Party marches through Munich. Liesal thinks of them as she cleans the front door step.
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World War II starts and Liesal become the heavyweight champion of the schoolyard.
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Liesal sends letters to her real mom. She never gets a reply though.
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Death tells us how Liesal took The Shoulder Shrug from a book burning.
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It is Hitler's birthday and everypne's families come into to town. Death shares with us how and why Hans will never be accepted into the Nazi party.
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The gang continues stealing and now they begin stealing onions and potatoes. They steal from a farmer boy named Otto Sturm.
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Max Vandenburg, a Jew in hiding, arrives at the Hubermann's seeking out Hans for help.
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Death compares hiding a Jew to gambling because you never know if the outcome will be rewarding or fatal.
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34,000 Jews massacred at Babi Yor outside Kiev.
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34,000 Jews massacred at Babi Yar outside Kiev.
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Rudy gives Liesal the title of The Book Thief in late October, 1941.
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Extermination begins in Belzec. By the end of 1942 600,000 Jews were murdered
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Extermination by gas begins in Sobibor killing center. By October 1943, 250,000 Jews were murdered.
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Death collects Jewish souls and treats them like they were new borns. He cries for them also.
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Liesel Meminger turns 13. She still has not gone through puberty though.
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German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad (Volgograd).
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Liesal is in her basement writing her story in her little black notebook. There is a bombing and everyone on Himmel Street dies, except her.
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Beginning of death march of approximately 40,000 Jews from Budapest to Austria.
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Evacuation of Auschwitz. This was the beginning of one of the death marches.
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Bombing of Hiroshima. Two days after this Nagasaki was bombed also.
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Japan surrenders. It is now the end of World War II.
