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Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000.
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Jews are banned from the German Labor Front
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Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military.
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The German Gestapo is placed above the law.
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Jews are banned from many professional occupations including teaching Germans, and from being accountants or dentists. They are also denied tax reductions and child allowances
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Nazis prohibit Aryan 'front-ownership' of Jewish businesses.
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SS leader Reinhard Heydrich is ordered by Göring to speed up the emigration of Jews.
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Nazis choose the town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in Poland near Krakow as the site of a new concentration camp
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Hans Frank, Gauleiter of Poland, states, "I ask nothing of the Jews except that they should disappear.
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Mass killings of Jews using Zyklon-B begin at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Bunker I (the red farmhouse) in Birkenau with the bodies being buried in mass graves in a nearby meadow.
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First resistance by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
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Russian troops reach former Polish border.
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Russians liberate Budapest, freeing over 80,000 Jews
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Adolf Eichmann is captured in Argentina by the Israeli secret service