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Hitler obtains German citizenship by natualization
Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, opening the opportunity for him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident -
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HIlter is Chanceller of Germany
HItler is appointed Chanceller of Germany -
Reichstag building
The Nazis burn the Reichstag building -
Hitler opens concentration scamps
Nazis open Dachau concentration camp near Munich, to be followed by Buchenwald near Weimar in central Germany, Sachsenhausen near Berlin in northern Germany, and Ravensbrück for women -
Jews not allowed health insurance
Jews not allowed national health insurance -
German President von Hindenburg dies. Hitler becomes Führer
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Nazis ban Jews from serving in Military
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Nazis force abortions on women
Nazis pass law allowing forced abortions on women to prevent them from passing on hereditary diseases -
Nazis occupy the Rhineland
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Nazis in Olympic games
Olympic games begin in Berlin. Hitler and top Nazis seek to gain legitimacy through favorable public opinion from foreign visitors and thus temporarily refrain from actions against Jews -
Jews banned in January
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 -
'Eternal Jew' travelling exhibition opens in Munich.
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Nazis enters Austria
Nazi troops enter Austria, which has a population of 200,000 Jews, mainly living in Vienna. Hitler announces Anschluss (union) with Austria. -
Arrestment
Nazis arrest 17,000 Jews of Polish nationality living in Germany, then expel them back to Poland which refuses them entry, leaving them in 'No-Man's Land' near the Polish border for several months -
Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech
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Jews turned away in May
The St. Louis, a ship crowded with 930 Jewish refugees, is turned away by Cuba, the United States and other countries and returns to Europe. -
Newspaper quote in September
Quote from Nazi newspaper, Der Stürmer, published by Julius Streicher - "The Jewish people ought to be exterminated root and branch. Then the plague of pests would have disappeared in Poland at one stroke -
Nazis choose camp site
Nazis choose the town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in Poland near Krakow as the site of a new concentration camp -
Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia become Nazi Allies
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Hans Frank
unknown date Romanian troops conduct a pogrom against Jews in the town of Jassy, killing 10,000 -
Romanian troops
Romanian troops conduct a pogrom against Jews in the town of Jassy, killing 10,000 -
New York Times Report
The New York Times reports on an inside page that Nazis have machine-gunned over 100,000 Jews in the Baltic states, 100,000 in Poland and twice as many in western Russia -
Exterminations
Exterminations at Belzec cease after an estimated 600,000 Jews have been murdered. The camp is then dismantled, plowed over and planted. British Foreign Secretary Eden tells the British House of Commons the Nazis are "now carrying into effect Hitler's oft repeated intention to exterminate the Jewish people of Europe." The U.S. declares those crimes will be avenged -
Allied troops land in Sicily
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Escape
Two hundred Jews escape from Treblinka extermination camp during a revolt. Nazis then hunt them down one by one -
The warning
A Jewish inmate, Siegfried Lederer, escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau and makes it safely to Czechoslovakia. He then warns the Elders of the Council at Theresienstadt about Auschwitz -
Anne Frank
Anne Frank and family are arrested by the Gestapo in Amsterdam, then sent to Auschwitz. Anne and her sister Margot are later sent to Bergen-Belsen where Anne dies of typhus on March 15, 1945 -
Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker
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Allied troops advance
As Allied troops advance, the Nazis conduct death marches of concentration camp inmates away from outlying areas
