Holoicaust-Alexis Timmer

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Mar 13, 1932

Presidential election under Weimar Republic in Germany gives 30.1 percent of the vote to Adolf Hitler, head of the NSDAP (National Socialist German Workers Party, i.e., Nazis). The incumbent president, Field Marshall Hindenburg, receives 49.6 percent.

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Apr 10, 1932

Since a majority (more than 50 percent) was required by German law for the election of a president, a re­run presidential election was held in which incumbent president Hindenburg wins with 53 percent of the vote. Adolf Hitler increases his popular vote to 36.8 percent.

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Jan 4, 1933

A pastoral letter of Austrian Bishop Gfollner of Linz states that it is the duty of all Catholics to adopt a “moral form of antisemitism.”

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Jan 4, 1933

Hitler and former Prime Minister Franz von Papen meet secretly to discuss Hitler’s future in the German government.

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Jan 24, 1934

Jews are banned from the German Labor Front.
A Lutheran minister opposed to the Reich Church is beaten by Nazi thugs.

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Jan 30, 1934

Hitler publicly insists that Germany will not be deterred from its program of rearmament.

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Jan 13, 1935

A plebiscite conducted under the auspices of the League of Nations brings the Saar region into Greater Germany.

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Feb 10, 1935

Prohibition of gatherings urging Jews to remain in Germany.

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Feb 4, 1936

Wilhelm Gustloff, leader of the Nazi Party in Switzerland, is assasinated by David Frankfurter, a Swiss Jewish student, in protest of the persecution of German Jews.

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Feb 10, 1936

The German Gestapo is placed above the law.

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Jan 1, 1937

Start of the Aryanization of the economy — Jewish owners forced, without legal basis, to sell their businesses, in most cases considerably below the value of their goods.

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Jan 26, 1937

Jews prohibited from working in any office in Germany.

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Jan 21, 1938

Minority rights abrogated by Romania; many Jews have their citizenship revoked.

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Feb 1, 1938

Hitler appoints Joachim von Ribbentrop foreign minister.

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Jan 1, 1939

Jews are eliminated from the German economy; their capital is seized, though some Jews continue to work under Germans.

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Jan 5, 1939

Germany declares Karaite Jews exempt from enforcement of the Nuremberg Laws.

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Jan 6, 1940

Shivering Jews in Warsaw, Poland, are forced to burn Jewish books for fuel.

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Jan 15, 1940

The forced march of 880 Polish prisoners of war--all Jews--results in the shooting deaths of more than 600.

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Jan 1, 1941

Denied fuel, Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto are freezing to death.

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Jan 10, 1941

Dutch Jews register with German authorities.

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Jan 1, 1942

Mass killings of Jews using Zyklon B begin at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The bodies are buried in mass graves in a nearby meadow.

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Jan 6, 1942

Molotov hands over information on mass graves.

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Jan 18, 1943

First armed resistance against deportation in Warsaw Ghetto.

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Jan 25, 1943

Transports from the ghetto in Theresienstadt to Auschwitz.

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Jan 24, 1944

Roosevelt creates the War Refugee Board.

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May 3, 1944

Germany invades Hungary.

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Jan 16, 1945

Soviet troops liberate 800 Jews at Czestochowa and 870 in Lodz.

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Jan 17, 1945

Soviet troops liberate Warsaw, few Jews remain.