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Hitler
Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.
The SA attacks Jewish Shops.
Jews are forced out of jobs in newspapers and the Civil Service. -
Newspapers on Jews
Jewish people banned from having health insurance.
Nazi Newspapers claim that Jews murder Christian children. -
Jews are banned
Jews banned from all ‘professional’ jobs.
Jews banned from working any political or Government role. -
Night of broken glass
Kristallnacht – Night of Broken Glass A night of extreme violence against Jews.
100 Jews murdered
20,000 Jews sent to concentration camps
Synagogues and Jewish homes burned down
Windows of Jewish shops smashed
Jews forced to pay a fine for Kristallnacht -
Germany takes Polland
Germany invades Poland.
Jews in Poland and Czechoslovakia begin to be persecuted.
All Jews in Nazi controlled territory forced to wear yellow star -
Germany invades Holland and Denmark
Germany!invades!Holland!and!Denmark,!Belgium!and!Norway.!Jewsih!
Persecution in these countries begins.
Auschwitz opens.
Warsaw ghetto is sealed of in Poland – 400,000 Jews inside. -
Germany invades USSR
The Einsatzgruppen is set up – a!killing squad to murder Jewish people
wherever they are found in the USSR.
All Jews in Europe now have to wear the yellow star.
Western Jews begin to be deported to Polish Ghettos – areas of cities set aside to house Jews in terrible conditions. Many thousands die of starvation and disease.
Gassing of Jews starts at Chelmno – the first death camp.
