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Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of germany.
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First concentration camp established at Dachau, Germany for political opponets.
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Nazis organize a nationwide boycott of Jewish-owned businesses in Germany
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First anti-Jewish laws passed. Jews are no longer allowed to be public employees ( teachers, post office workers, government workers) .
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Nazis burn books of those considered un-German. This introduces the idea of censorship and government control of culture
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Jews explelled from choir clubs.
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Jewish musicaians prohibited from preforming.
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Nazi government declared laws,'' making jews non-citizens and forbitting marriage between jews and non-Jews. These laws are comonly know as NUREMBERG LAWS.
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Marriages between citizens of German blood and jews punished with prison. Marriages contracted despite this are void.
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The conversion from Judaism to Christianity has no bearing on race-based on birth one was still considered a Jew/
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The summer Olympic games are held in Berlin, Germany. The Nazis remove anti-jewsih signs from public display and and restrained anti-Jewish activites to avoid international criticism.
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Jews were not allowed to graduate.
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Germany annexes Austria (Anschluss) . Thousands of Austrian Jews flee due to harsh anti-Jewish actions that follow.
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In a nationwide pogrom (attack) called Kristallnacht, the Nazis and their collaborators burn synagogues and loot Jewish homes and businesses. Approximately 30,000 Jewish men imprisoned in concentration camps.
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Jewish children no longer allowed to attened public schools.
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Jews hand in drivers licenses.
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In Bavarian square Jews only allowed to sit on benches marked with yellow color.
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Jew's last will and testaments are no longer valid.
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German troops invade Poland, marking the beginning of World War ll.
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Nazi government begins program to kill mentally and physically disabled people in a ''euthanasia'' program known as the ''T-4 Program.''
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German authorities begin forced deportation of Jews from West Prussia, Ponnan, Dazing and Lodz to locations in the General Government (formerly Poland)
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Jews not eligible for clothing rations.
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German troops invade the Netherland, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France.
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Jews allowed to shop for food between 4 pm and 5 pm only.
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All Jews to perform forced labor
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Jews not to obtain soap or shaving cream with ration cards.
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German mobile killing squads, Einsatzgruppen, were assigned to identify, concentrate, and kill Jews behind the front lines.
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Jews not allowed to use public library.
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Jews over six years of age to wear yellow star with word ''Jew'' .
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Jews over th age of six who reside in Germany had to wear a yellow Star of David in public at all times.
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Jews not allowed to use public transpertation, if crowded. They are only permitted to sit down when none of the other passengers are standidng.
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Deportationof Jews from Germany to theghettos of Lodz, Riga, and Minsk begins.
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Gassing operations began at the Cheimno killing center.
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Jews not allowed to use public telephone.
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Nazi officials meet in Wannsee to organize the Final Solution (mass murder of jews in Europe) .
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Jews not allowed to have pets.
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Jews have to turn in electical appliances, bicycles, typewriters, and records.
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Jews not allowed to go to school.
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First direct deportation to Auschwitz.
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Supplying Jews with meat, meat products prohibited.
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Jews not allowed to buy books.