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Hitler Chancellor
Hitler is apoinnted Chancellor of Germany. -
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Beginning to End
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Nazis burn Reichstag building to create crisis atmosphere
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Jews are banned from the German Labor Front
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Jews are prohibited from getting legal qualifications
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Nazi ban Jews From serving in the millitary
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Nazis force Jewish performers/artists to join Jewish Cultural Unions.
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Nazis occupy the Rhineland.
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SS Deathshead division is established to guard concentration camps.
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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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Eternal Jew travelling exhibition opens in Munich.
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Nazis order Jews to register wealth and property.
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Nazis prohibited Jews from trading and providing a variety of specified commercial services.
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Nazis force Jews to hand over all gold and silver items.
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German Jews denied the right to hold government jobs.
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Rudolf Höss is chosen to be kommandant of Auschwitz.
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The Warsaw Ghetto, containing over 400,000 Jews, is sealed off.
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3,800 Jews killed during a pogrom by Lithuanians in Kovno.
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Nazis forbid emigration of Jews from the Reich.
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The start of deportation of Slovak Jews to Auschwitz.
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Jews in France, Holland, Belgium, Croatia, Slovakia, Romania ordered to wear yellow stars.
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Nazis order all Gypsies arrested and sent to extermination camps.
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Jews in Rome rounded up, with over 1,000 sent to Auschwitz.
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Gross
Jews from Hungary arrive at Auschwitz. Eichmann arrives to personally oversee and speed up the extermination process. By May 24, an estimated 100,000 have been gassed. Between May 16 and May 31, the SS report collecting 88 pounds of gold and white metal from the teeth of those gassed. By the end of June, 381,661 persons - half of the Jews in Hungary - arrive at Auschwitz. -
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.
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Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps.
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SS-Reichsführer Himmler commits suicide while in British custody.
