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Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000.
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Emergency powers granted to Hitler as a result of the Reichstag fire.
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Nazis stage boycott of Jewish shops and businesses.
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Nazis pass a Law against habitual and dangerous Criminals, which allows beggars, the homeless, alcoholics and the unemployed to be sent to concentration camps
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The SS (Schutzstaffel) is made an independent organization from the SA
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Nazis pass law allowing forced abortions on women to prevent them from passing on hereditary diseases.
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Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews decreed
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The Reich central office is created
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Nazis occupy the Rhineland
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The destruction of Jewish nomes and businesses in Munich, and the beating of Jewish people.
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a ship crowded with 930 Jewish refugees, is turned away by Cuba, the United States and other countries and returns to Europe
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When Germany invades Poland
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Heydrich issues instructions to the special action squads to gather Jews in Poland into ghettos.
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Eichmann's Madagascar Plan is presented
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Nazis choose a town in Poland as the site of a new concentration camp called Auschwitz.
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The Lodz Ghetto opens with 230000 Jews inside
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an order that authorizes execution of anyone suspected of being a Communist official in territories about to be seized from Soviet Russia.
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Jews from germany are required to wear a yellow star to indicate that they are Jewish
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SS Einsatzgruppen murder 33,771 Jews at Babi Yar near Kiev.
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the Wannsee Conference talks about the "final solution"
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Gypsy family camp is created and set up in Auschwitz-Birkenau sector BIIe
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When Dr Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz
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Himmler orders liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in occupied Poland
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Last use of the gas chambers at Auschwitz.
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Himmler orders destruction of the crematories at Auschwitz.
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Russian troops liberate Auschwitz. By this time, an estimated 2,000,000 persons, including 1,500,000 Jews, have been murdered
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Hitler Commits Suicide
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The opening of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal.
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Adolf Eichmann is captured in Argentina by the Israeli secret service.
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Dr Josef Mengele Dies