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The Holocaust-what happened and when
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Jews are prohibited from being newspaper editors.
Jews not allowed national health insurance.
Jews are prohibited from getting legal qualifications.
Jews are banned from many professional occupations including teaching Germans, and from being accountants or dentists.
Jewish doctors prohibited by law from practicing medicine.
Jews are prohibited from all legal practices.
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In the middle of the night, a parade was held to celebrate Hitler becomes chancellor.
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the first official Nazi concentration camp opens in Dachau
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Because of the suspicious fire that accrued in the Parliament Hitler was given temporary power and this later on made the parliament pass the enabling act which granted him dictation-ship over Germany
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The Gestapo ("Geheime Stat Polizei" - Secret State Police) is established by Herman Goering, minister of Prussia.
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Public burnings of books written by Jews, political dissidents, and others not approved by the state.
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Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Reich Chancellor). Armed forces must now swear allegiance to him.
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First anti-Jewish racial laws enacted; Jews no longer considered German citizens; Jews could not marry Aryans; nor could they fly the German flag.
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Germany defines a "Jew": anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew.
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Sachsenhausen concentration camp opens.
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Hitler and Mussolini form Rome-Berlin Axis.
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Buchenwald concentration camp opens.
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Flossenburg concentration camp opens.
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Mandatory registration of all property held by Jews inside the Reich
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Great Britain and France agree to German occupation of the Sudetenland, previously western Czechoslovakia.
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Following request by Swiss authorities, Germans mark all Jewish passports with a large letter "J" to restrict Jews from immigrating to Switzerland.
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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)
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Germans occupy Czechoslovakia
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Ravensbruck concentration camp opens.
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Non-aggression pact between Soviet Union and Germany
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Germany invades Poland. In the following weeks, 16.336 civilians are murdered by the Nazies in 714 localities. At least 5,000 victims were Jews.
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Jews in German-occupied Poland forced to wear an arm band or star of David.
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Germans occupy Denmark and southern Norway.
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Germany invades the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France.
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Concentration camp established at Auschwitz.
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Neuengamme concentration camp opens
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Establishment of Auschwitz II (Birkenau) for the extermination of Jews; Gypsies, Poles, Russians, and others were also murdered at the camp.
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Dozens thousands of Russian and Jews are murdered by the Einzatzgruppen (extermination squads) in the occupied territories. Here are some examples:
5,200 Jews murdered in Byalistok
2,000 Jews murdered in Minsk
5,000 Jews murdered in Vilna
5,000 Jews murdered in Brest-Litovsk
5,000 Jews murdered in Tarnopol
3,500 Jews murdered in Zloczow
11,000 Jews murdered in Pinsk
14,000 Jews murdered in Kamenets Podolsk
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German authorities begin rounding up Polish Jews for transfer to Warsaw Ghetto. 10,000 Jews died by starvation in the ghetto between January and June 1941
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Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp opens in France
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Chelmno (Kulmhof) extermination camp begins operations: 340,000 Jews, 20,000 Poles and Czechs murdered by April 1943
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Extermination by gas begins in Sobibor killing center; by October 1943, 250,000 Jews murdered.
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Heydrich outlines plan to murder Europe's Jews.
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Extermination begins in Belzec; by end of 1942 600,000 Jews murdered.
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Germans establish Treblinka concentration camp Summer Deportation of Jews to killing centers from Belgium, Croatia, France, the Netherlands, and Poland; armed resistance by Jews in ghettos of Kletzk, Kremenets, Lachva, Mir, and Tuchin.
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Previously POW camp Bergen-Belsen is under SS control.
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Warsaw Ghetto revolt begins as Germans attempt to liquidate 70,000 inhabitants; Jewish underground fights Nazis until early June
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Nazis begin deporting Hungarian Jews ; by June 27, 380,000 sent to Auschwitz.
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Allied invasion at Normandy.
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Beginning of death march of approximately 40,000 Jews from Budapest to Austria.
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This continued until the 10th of April
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April 8: Liberation of Buchenwald.
April 15: Liberation of Bergen-Belsen.
April 22: Liberation of Sachsenhausen.
April 23: Liberation of Flossenburg.
April 29: Liberation of Dachau.
April 30: Liberation of Ravensbruck.
May 7: Liberation of Mauthausen. -
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Germany surrenders; end of Third Reich
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Victory over Japan proclaimed
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Japan surrenders; end of World War II
