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Elections for Nazi Party
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Great Depression starts
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Sedond Nazi Party elections
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Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000
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German Parliament passes Enabling Act giving Hitler dictatorial powers.
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Nazis stage boycott of Jewish shops and businesses.
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Nazi Party is declared the only legal party in Germany; Also, Nazis pass Law to strip Jewish immigrants from Poland of their German citizenship.
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Nazis prohibit Jews from owning land.
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Jews are prohibited from being newspaper editors.
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Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler
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Germany defines a "Jew"
anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew. -
Jewish doctors barred from practicing medicine in German institutions
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Buchenwald concentration camp opens.
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Flossenburg concentration camp opens.
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Kristallnacht
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Kristallnacht
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Decree forcing all Jews to transfer retail businesses to Aryan hands
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All Jewish pupils expelled from German schools
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First Polish ghetto established in Piotrkow
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France surrenders
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Warsaw Ghetto sealed: ultimately contained 500,000 people.
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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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Group of German officers attempt to assassinate Hitler
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Evacuation of Auschwitz; beginning of death march
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Hitler commits suicide, liberation of Ravensbruck
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Japan surrenders; end of World War II
