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Adolf Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany.
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The German government takes away freedom of speech, assembly, press, and freedom from invasion of privacy and from house search without warrant.
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Books by Jews and opponents of Nazism are burned publicly.
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Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
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Hitler violates the Versailles Treaty by renewing the compulsory military draft.
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"No Jews" signs and notices are posted outside German towns and villages, and outside shops and restaurants.
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The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of their citizenship.
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The Olympic Games take place in Berlin. Anti-Jewish signs (i.e., "Jews Not Welcome") are removed until the Games are completed.
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Jews can obtain passports for travel outside of Germany only in special cases.
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The German government announces Jews must carry identification cards.
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Kristallnacht ("Night of Broken Glass"): Nazi organized nation-wide pogroms result in the burning of hundreds of synagogues; the looting and destruction of many Jewish homes, schools, and community offices; vandalism; and the looting of 7,500 Jewish stores. Many Jews are beaten, and more than 90 are killed. Thirty-thousand Jewish men are arrested and imprisoned in concentration camps. Several thousand Jewish women are arrested and sent to local jails. This is followed by a punitive fine to be pa
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All Jewish children are expelled from German schools and can attend only separate Jewish schools.
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Cuba and the United States refuse to accept Jewish refugees aboard the ship S.S. St. Louis, which is forced to return to Europe.
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The German army invades Poland and World War II begins.
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The German army invades and defeats Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and France.
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Approximately 164,000 Polish Jews are concentrated and imprisoned in the Lódz ghetto which is established and sealed off from the outside world.
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The German army invades the Soviet Union. The Einsatzgruppen, mobile killing squads, begin the mass murders of Jews, Gypsies, and Communist leaders.
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.
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Nazi "extermination" camps located in occupied Poland at Auschwitz, Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, and Majdanek-Lublin begins mass murder of Jews in gas chambers.
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All Jews in concentration camps in Germany are sent to death camp at Auschwitz.
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Jews in the Warsaw ghetto initiate resistance to deportation by the Germans to the death camps.
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The Allied Powers invade Normandy.
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The Soviet army liberates Auschwitz.
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Troops from the United States liberate survivors from the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps.
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Adolph Hitler commits suicide in his bunker in Berlin rather than be caught by the advancing Soviet army.
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Germany surrenders and war in Europe is ended.