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Period: to
Nazis and the Holocaust
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Hitler becomes a German Citizen
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HItler runs for presidency
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Hitler is elected chancellor of Germany
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Hitler withdraws from the League of Nations
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Germany's president Paul von Hindenburg dies
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Hitler becomes Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor and abolishes the title of president
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Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military
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Nazis pass law allowing forced abortions on women to prevent them from passing on hereditary diseases
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Nazis occupy the Rhineland
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Olympic games begin in Berlin
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Jews are banned from many professional occupations
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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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Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass.
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Nazis force Jews to hand over all gold and silver items
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Yellow stars required to be worn by Polish Jews over age 10
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Nazis choose the town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in Poland near Krakow as the site of a new concentration camp
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The Warsaw Ghetto is sealed off
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Nazis occupy Bulgaria
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The Vilna Ghetto is established containing 40,000 Jews
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German Jews are banned from using public transportation
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Open pit burning of bodies begins at Auschwitz in place of burial
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First resistance by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto
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Beginning of Jewish family transports from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz
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Russian troops reach former Polish border
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The last transport of Jews to be gassed, 2,000 from Theresienstadt, arrives at Auschwitz
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Russians liberate Budapest
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Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker
