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Hitler came into power
Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany -
The laws
"Nuremberg Laws": anti-Jewish racial laws enacted; Jews no longer considered German citizens; Jews could not marry Aryans; nor could they fly the German flag. Germany defines a "Jew": anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew -
Camps
Buchenwald concentration camp opens -
Chaos in November
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) Decree forcing all Jews to transfer retail businesses to Aryan hands All Jewish pupils expelled from German schools -
More camps
Concentration camp established at Auschwitz -
The ghettos
Warsaw Ghetto sealed: ultimately contained 500,000 people -
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Racism
Anti-Jewish riots in Romania, led by the Iron Guard (Romanian fascist organization); hundreds of Jews butchered