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Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Von Hindenburg
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Law excluding East European Jewish immigrants of German citizenship.
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Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Reich Chancellor). Armed forces must now swear allegiance to him.
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Jews barred from serving in the German armed forces
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Germans march into the Rhineland, previously demilitarized by the Versailles Treaty.
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Hitler and Mussolini form Rome-Berlin Axis.
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Buchenwald concentration camp opens.
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Flossenburg concentration camp opens.
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italy enacts sweeping anti semitic laws
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Mauthausen concentration camp opens in Austria
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17,000 Polish Jews living in Germany expelled; Poles refused to admit them; 8,000 are stranded in the frontier village of Zbaszyn.
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Decree forcing all Jews to transfer retail businesses to Aryan hands
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One billion mark fine levied against German Jews for the destruction of property during Kristallnacht
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Germans occupy Czechoslovakia.
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start of ww2
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Jews in German-occupied Poland forced to wear an arm band or yellow star.
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Anti-Jewish riots in Romania, hundreds of Jews butchered.
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Germany invades the Soviet Union.
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United States declares war on Japan and Germany.
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Deportation of Jews from Germany, Greece and Norway to killing centers; Jewish partisan movement organized in forests near Lublin.
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Rescue of the Danish Jewry
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Himmler orders the liquidation of all ghettos in Poland and the Soviet Union
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Armed revolt in Sobibor extermination camp
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Red Army repels Nazi forces.
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end of ww2
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Japan surrenders; end of World War II