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Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
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Jewish lawyers/notaries can no longer practice in Berlin
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First concentration camp established at Dachau, Germany for political opponents
for political opponents -
Nazis organize a nationwide boycott of Jewish-owned businesses in Germany
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Jewish teachers to be discharged
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First anti-Jewish laws passed. Jews no longer allowed to be public employees.
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Jews expelled from sports clubs
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Nazis burn books of those considered un-German, introducing idea of censorship and government control of culture
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Jews not allowed to use the beach in Wannsee (a lake in Berlin suburb)
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Jewish wrtiers no longer allowed to write.
No specific date other than March 1935. -
Summer Olympic Games are held in Berlin, Germany. Nazis remove anti-Jewish signs from public display and restrained anti-Jewish activities to avoid international criticism.
Took place August 1st to August 16th -
Nazi government declared "racial laws," making Jews non-citizens and forbidding marriage between Jews and non-Jews; these acts are commonly known as the Nuremberg Laws
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Conversion from Judaism to Christianity has no bearing on race-based on birth one was still considered a Jew.
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Jews not allowed to graduate
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Aryan and non-Aryan children cannot play together.
No specific date, just 1938 -
Germany annexes Austria, thousands of Austrian Jews flee due to harsh anti-Jew actions that follow
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Jewish doctors can no longer practice.
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Jews to add middle name or "Sarah" or "Israel."
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In nationwide pogrom (attack) called Kristallnacht, Nazis and collaborators burn synagogues and loot Jewish homes and businesses. About 30k Jewish men imprisoned in concentration camps.
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Jews not allowed to go to movies, operas and concerts
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Jews cannot be self employed in any trade.
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Jewish children no longer allowed to attend public schools
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Jews had to hand over drivers licenses
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Jews not allowed to use swimming pools
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Jews not allowed to take jewelry or other valuables while emigrating
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Jews to turn in gold, silver, platinum, pearls
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Jew's last will and testament are no longer valid.
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German troops invade Poland, marking start of World War ll
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Jews not allowed to leave their home after 8pm; 9pm in the summer.
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Jews to turn in radios
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Nazi government begins program to kill mentally and physicaly disabled people in a "euthanasia" program known as the "T-4 Program."
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German authorities begin forced deportation of Jews from West Prussia, Poznan, Danzig and Lodz to locations in the General Government (formerly Poland)
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German troops invade the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France
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Jews allowed to shop for food between 4pm and 5pm only
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German mobile killing squads, Einsatzgruppen, were assigned to identify, concentrate, and kill Jews behind the front lines.
Took place Summer and Fall of 1941 -
German troops invade the Soviet Union
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Jews over the age of six who reside in Germany had to wear a yellow Star of David in public at all times.
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Deportation of Jews from Germany to the ghettos of Lodz, Riga, and Minsk begins.
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Jews no longer allowed to emigrate.
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Gassing operations began at the Chelmno killing center.
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Nazi officials meet in Wannsee to organize the Final Solution (mass murder of Jews in Europe)
Took place in January 1942, no specific date -
Jews not allowed to purchase newspapers or magazines.
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Jewish homes have to display "Jewish Star."
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Jews have to turn in all electrical appliances, bicycles, typewriters, and records
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First direct deportation to Auschwitz
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Jews cannot testify in court against Germans.
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Jews not allowed to buy books