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Holocaust
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Hitler is apppointed chancellor of Germany
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Goverment decides they can go into your household anytime they want
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Roosevelt is inaugerated as president
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First concentration camp is established by the Nazi Party
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A nationwide boycott of Jewish-owned businesses in Germany is carried out under Nazi leadership.
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Jews are barred from government service
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The law against "overcrowding in German schools and universities" is adopted, restricting the number of Jewish children allowed to attend.
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Books by Jews and opponents of Nazism are burned publicly.
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Laws are passed in Germany that permit the forced sterilization of Gypsies, the mentally and physically disabled, African-Germans, and others considered "inferior" or "unfit."
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Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
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Hitler becomes Chansellor of the Third Reich
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Strt of arresting of homosexuals throughout Germany
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The Saar region is annexed by Germany.
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Hitler violates the Versailles Treaty by renewing the compulsory military draft.
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Jehovah's Witnesses are banned from all civil service jobs and are arrested throughout Germany.
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"No Jews" signs and notices are posted outside German towns and villages, and outside shops and restaurants.
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Jews are prohibited from serving in the German armed forces.
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The Nuremberg Laws deprive German Jews of their citizenship.
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jewish doctors are no longer permitted to practice in government
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Hitler's army invades the Rhineland.
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The first German Gypsies are arrested and deported to Dachau concentration camp
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The Olympic Games take place in Berlin.
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The Ministry of Science and Education prohibits teaching by "non-Aryans" in public schools
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Further restrictions are imposed on the number of Jewish students
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Buchenwald concentration camp opens.
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Jews can obtain passports for travel outside of Germany only in special cases.
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Germany annexes Austria.
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The German government passes a decree requiring the registration of all Gypsies without a fixed address living in Austria;
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Representatives from thirty-two countries meet at Evian, France, to discuss refugee policies. Most of the countries refuse to let in more Jewish refugees.
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The German government announces Jews must carry identification cards.
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An attempt is made by Herschel Grynzpan to assassinate a German diplomat in Paris.
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Kristallnacht ("Night of Broken Glass"): Nazi organized nation-wide pogroms result in the burning of hundreds of synagogues; the looting and destruction of many Jewish homes, schools, and community offices
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German Jews are ordered to pay one billion Reichsmarks in reparations for damages of Kristallinacht.
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All Jewish children are expelled from German schools and can attend only separate Jewish schools.
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Decrees ban Jews from public streets on certain days; Jews are forbidden drivers' licenses and car registrations.
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Jews must sell their businesses and real estate and hand over their securities and jewelry to the government at artificially low prices.
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Jews may no longer attend universities as teachers and/or students
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Germany invades and occupies Czechoslovakia.
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Two-thousand Gypsy males above the age of 16 are arrested in Burgenland Province (formerly Austria) and sent to Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps
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Cuba and the United States refuse to accept Jewish refugees aboard the ship S.S. St. Louis, which is forced to return to Europe.
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Soviet-German Non-aggression Pact signed.
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The German army invades Poland and World War II begins.
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Jews are forced to turn in radios, cameras, and other electric objects to the police. Jews receive more restrictive ration coupons than other Germans
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Hitler extends powers to doctors to kill institutionalized mentally and physically disabled persons in the "euthanasia" program.
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Germans force Jews in Poland to wear a yellow Star of David on their chests or a blue-and-white Star of David armband
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The first Polish ghetto is established.
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The German army invades and defeats Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and France.
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Approximately 164,000 Polish Jews are concentrated and imprisoned in the Lódz ghetto which is established and sealed off from the outside world.
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A concentration camp is established at Auschwitz, Poland.
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Anti-Jewish laws are passed by France's Vichy Government.
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The Warsaw ghetto is established.
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The Warsaw ghetto is closed off with approximately 500,000 inhabitants.
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Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia join the Axis Powers.
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Gypsy and African-German children are expelled from public schools.
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The German army invades North Africa.
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The German army invades Yugoslavia and Greece.
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Romania passes law condemning adult Jews to forced labor.
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The German army invades the Soviet Union. The Einsatzgruppen, mobile killing squads, begin the mass murders of Jews, Gypsies, and Communist leaders.
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The French Vichy government revokes civil rights of French Jews in North Africa.
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German Jews above the age of six are forced to wear a yellow Star of David sewed on the left side of their clothes with the word "Jude" printed in black.
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Soviet prisoners of war and Polish prisoners are killed in Nazi test of gas chambers at Auschwitz in occupied Poland.
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Nearly 34,000 Jews are murdered by mobile killing squads at Babi Yar, near Kiev in the Ukraine.
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Construction begins on Birkenau, an addition to the Auschwitz camp. Birkenau includes a killing center which begins operations in early 1942
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First group of German and Austrian Jews are deported to ghettos in eastern Europe.
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Five thousand Gypsies are deported from labor and internment camps in Austria to the Lódz ghetto in Poland.
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.
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The Chelmno death camp opens near Lódz, Poland and the first gassing of victims in mobile gas vans occurs.
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Germany declares war on the United States.
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Five thousand Austrian Gypsies from the Lódz ghetto are deported to the killing center at Chelmno where they are all killed in mobile gas vans.
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Nazi "extermination" camps located in occupied Poland at Auschwitz, Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, and Majdanek-Lublin begins mass murder of Jews in gas chambers.
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Jews in the Lódz ghetto are deported to the killing center at Chelmno.
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Fifteen Nazi and government leaders meet at Wannsee, a section of Berlin, to discuss the "final solution to the Jewish question".
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Approximately ten thousand Jews, who had arrived in the Lódz ghetto some six months earlier from Germany, Luxembourg, Vienna, and Prague, are deported to Chelmno.
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Treblinka death camp opens.
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Jews in France and the Netherlands are required to wear identifying Stars of David.
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The German government closes all Jewish schools.
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Jewish fighting organizations established in the Warsaw ghetto.
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Approximately fifteen thousand Jews in the Lódz ghetto are deported to Chelmno, mostly children under ten and individuals over sixty-five, but also others who are too weak or ill to work.
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All Jews in concentration camps in Germany are sent to death camp at Auschwitz.
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A special internment camp for non-Jewish Polish youth is opened in Lódz.
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All Gypsies in Germany and Nazi occupied countries, with few exceptions, are arrested and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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16 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto initiate resistance to deportation by the Germans to the death camps.
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The Nazis order all of the ghettos in Poland and the Soviet Union destroyed.
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The inmates at Treblinka rebel.
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The Danish citizens smuggle most of the nation's Jews to neutral Sweden.
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The inmates at Sobibor initiate an armed rebellion.
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The War Refugee Board is established by President Franklin Roosevelt.
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The German army invades Hungary.
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The Nazis begin deportation of Hungarian Jews. Over 430,000 Jews are sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau where most are gassed.
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The Allied Powers invade Normandy.
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Seven thousand one hundred ninety-six Jews are deported from the Lódz ghetto to Chelmno where they are killed.
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German officers fail and are caught in an attempt to assassinate Hitler.
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The Soviet Army liberates the Majdanek death camp.
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The prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau rebel and blow up one crematorium.
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Nazis empty Auschwitz and start prisoners on "death marches" to Germany.
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The Soviet army liberates Auschwitz.
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Troops from the United States liberate survivors from the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps.
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Adolph Hitler commits suicide in his bunker in Berlin rather than be caught by the advancing Soviet army.
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Troops from the United States liberate Mauthausen concentration camp.
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Germany surrenders and war in Europe is ended.
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The war crimes tribunal is convened at Nuremberg, Germany.
