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Mein Kampf
While imprisoned for trying to take over the government, Hitler wrote Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"). In this book, he proposed that Germany defy the Versailles Treaty by rearming and reclaiming lost land. He also blamedminority groups, especially jews,for Germanys weakness. -
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Hitler becomes Chancellor
The Nazi pary gained a majority in the Reichstag, the lower house of the German parliament. Hitler became first chancellor and then president of Germany. He moved to
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Councler
Adolf Hitler was appointed Councler of Germany. -
The German Government
The Government takes away freedon of speech, assembly, press, and freedom from invasion of privacy and from house serach without warrent. -
Boycott
Hitler calls for Boycott of Jewish business; Jews dismissed /prohibited from working in government and civial service positions ( judges, lawers, journailists, conductors, musicians, professors, scientists, and more) -
No jews alowed anywhere
Jew were no longer alowed to enter cinemas, theaters, swimming pools, resorts, and more. -
Nuremberg Laws
anti-Jewish racial laws enacted; Jews no longer considered German citizens; Jews could not marry Aryans; nor could they fly the German flag. -
Marked
Following request by Swiss authorities, Germans mark all Jewish passports with a large letter "J" to restrict Jews from immigrating to Switzerland. -
Germany Rearms and Expands
German troops entered the Rhineland, a region
in western Germany that the Versailles Treaty explicitly banned
them from occupying. However, neither Britain nor France took
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Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass): 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).
