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January 30, 1933
Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population -
February 27, 1933
Nazis burn Reichstag building to create crisis atmosphere -
July 14, 1933
Nazi part is declared the only legal party in Germany -
January 24, 1934
Jews are banned from the German Labor Front -
May 17, 1934
Jews not allowed national health insurance -
July 22, 1934
Jews are prohibited from getting legal qualifications -
August 19, 1934
Hitler receives a 90 percent ‘yes’ vote from German voters approving his new powers -
June 26, 1935
Nazis pass law allowing forced abortions on women to prevent them from passing -
January 1937
Jews are banned from many professional occupations -
March 13, 1938
Nazi troops enter Austria -
Juy 25, 1938
Jewish doctors prohibited by law from practicing medicine -
January 20, 1939
Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech -
February 21, 1939
Nazi force Jews to hand over all gold and silver items -
April 30, 1939
Jews lose rights as tenants and are relocated into Jewish houses -
July 3, 1939
German Jews denied the right to hold government jobs -
September 3, 1939
Great Britain and France declare war on Germany -
October 6, 1939
Proclamation by Hitler on the isolation of Jews -
April 9, 1940
Nazis invade Denmark -
March 7, 1941
German Jews ordered into forced labor -
September 29, 1941
23,000 Jews killed -
February 2, 1943
Jews working in Berlin armaments industry are sent to Auschwitz -
May 15, 1944
Beginning of the deportation of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz -
January 18, 1945
Nazis evacuate 66,000 from Auschwitz -
April 23, 1945
Berlin is reached by Russian troops -
April 30, 1945
Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps