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Nazis unleash terror to ensure election results.
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First concentration camp - Dachau - established.
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Enabling Act - Suspending civil liberties - passed by Nazi - dominated Reichstag
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Boycott of Jewish shops and business. Jewish professionals barred from entering office.
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The Law for the reestablishment of the Civil Service.
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Ritual slaughter of animals in accordance with Jewish dietary laws prohibited in Germany.
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Universities and the arts are "cleansd" of Jewish influence. Jewish professers expelled. Jewish writers and artists prohibited from practicing their professions.
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Jewish organizations in America and Western Europe protest Nazi persecution of the Jews. A few call for a boycott of Nazi Germany.
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Nazis Purge leadershio of Storm Troopers (SA) and opponents of Nazism.
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Hitler named president and commander-in-chief of the armed forces following the death of Von Hindenburg.
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Anti-Jewish racial laws enacted. Jews could no longer be German citizens, marry Aryans, fly the German flag, and hire German maids under the age of forty-five.
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Germany defines Jews: Anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew.
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David Frankfurter, young Jewish student, assassinates Wilhelm Gustloff, leader of Nazi party, in Switzerland.
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Jewish doctors barred from practicing medicine in government institutions.
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Germans march into the Rhineland which had been demilitarized according to treaty.
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Germans and Italians join Franco's forces in Spanish Civil War
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annexation of Austria by Germany; all German anto-Semetic decrees immediately applied in Austria.
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Adolf Eichaman established Office of Jewish Emigration to speed up pace of forced emigration.
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Decrees revoke all name changes by Jews and force those Jews who did not have names recognized as Jewish by German authorities to add "Israel" (for males) and "sarah" (for females) as middle names.
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England and France aggree to turn over Sudetenland (part of Czechoslovakia) to germany.
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Following requests by the Swiss authorities, Germans order all jews' passports marked with a large red "J" to prevent Jews from smuggling themselves into the Switzerland.
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Jews with Polosh citizenship living in Germany are expelled to Polish border> poles refuse to admit them. Germans refuse to allow them back into Germany. - 17,000 stranded in frontier town of Zbasyn
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Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass) : anti-Jewish pogrom in Germany and Austria. Two hundred synagogues destroyed. 7,500 Jewish shops looted and 30,000 male Jews sent to concentration camps. (Dachau, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen).
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Decree forcing all Jews to transfer retail businesses to Aryan hands.
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Hitler threatens in Reichstag speech that if war erupts it will mean the Vernichtung (extermination) of European Jews.
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Nazis occupy part of Czechoslovakia (Bohemia and Moravia) ; make Slovakia independant satellite state.
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Molotov-Ribbentrop Pack Signed: nonagression pact between Russia and Germany.
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Beginning of World War II: Germany invades Poland.
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Heydrich issues directives to establish ghettos in German-occupied Poland.
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Jews in German-occupied Poland forced to wear distinguishing badge.
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First ghetto in Poland established in Protrokow.
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Himmler Issues directive to establish a concentration camp at Auschwitz.
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Lodz ghetto closed off: approximately 165,000 inhabitants in 1.6 square miles.
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Approximatately 500,000 inhabitants.
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Anti-Jewish Riots in Rumania by Iron Guard: hundreds of JEws cruelly buthchered.
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Vichey government deprives Jews of French North Africa of their rights as citizens.
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Nazi Einsatzgruppen (special mobile killing units) carry out mass murder of Jews in areas of Soviet Union occupied by German army.
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Heydrich appointed by Goering as responsible for implementation of Final Solution.
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Jews in the Third Reich obligated to wear yellow star of David as distinguished mark.
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Massacre of Jews at Babi Yar - ravine outside of Kiev: 34,000 murdered
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Establishment of Birkenau camp: site of mass extermination of Jews, Gypsies, Poles, Russians, and others.
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Chelmo extermination camp begins operation: 340,000 Jews, 20,000 Poles and Czechs liquidated there by April 1943
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Jewish underground organizations established in Vilna Ghetto and Kovno Ghetto.
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Wannsee Conference: Heydrich reveals official plan to murder all Jews on European continent.
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Extermination by gas begins in Sobibor Extermination camp: by October 1943 250,000 Jews murdered.
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Extermination begins in Belzec extermination camp: by end of 1942 600,000 Jews murdered.
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Treblinka extermination camp begins operation by August 1943- 700,000 Jews murdered
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Jewish partisan unit established in forests of Belorussia.
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Deprtation of Jews to from Holland, Poland, France, Belgium, Croatia. Armed resistance by jews in ghettos of Kletzk, Wieswiez, Mir, Lackwa, Krements, and Tuchin.
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Jewish fighting organization (ZOB) established in Warsaw Ghetto.
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Deportation of Jews from Norway, Germany, and Greece to extermination camps. Jewish partisan movment organized in forests near Lublin.
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Germans attmept to liquidate Jews in Warsaw Ghetto; armed resistance by ghetto inhabitants.
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Warsaw ghetto revolt begins as Germans attempt to liquidate 70,000 ghetto inhabitants; Jewish underground fights Nazis until early June.
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Himler orders the liquidation of all the ghettos in Poland and the Soviet Union.
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Armed resistence by Jews in Czetoschowa, Lvov, Bedzin, Bialystock, and Tarnow ghettos
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Liquidation of large ghettos. Minck, Vilna, Riga.
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Nazis begin deporting Hungarian Jews. By June 27, 38,000 sent to Auschwitz.
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Group of German officers attempts to assassinate Hitler
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Russians liberate Maidanek extermination camps.
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Liquidation of ghettos in Kovino (Kaunas), Shavli (Siauliai), and Lodz; inmates sent to concentration and extermination camps.
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Revolt by inmates in Auschwitz; one crematorium blown up.
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Last Jews deported from Theresienstadt model ghetto to Auschwitz.
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Begining of death march of approximately 40,000 Jews from Budapest to Austria.
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Evacuation of Auschwitz: begining of death march of camp inmates.
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Red Army enters Germany from east; allies enter from west.
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