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the organized and systematic mass murder of European Jews. -
anti-Jewish racial laws enacted; Jews no longer considered German citizens; Jews could not marry Aryans; nor could they fly the German flag -
anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew -
Great Britain and France agree to German occupation of the Sudetenland, previously western Czechoslovakia -
anti-Jewish pogrom in Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland; 200 synagogues destroyed; 7,500 Jewish shops looted; 30,000 male Jews sent to concentration camps (Dachau, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen) -
non-aggression pact between Soviet Union and Germany -
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extermination camp begins operations: 340,000 Jews, 20,000 Poles and Czechs murdered by April 1943