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U.S. Major Events
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Hitler found guilty of treason. He writes political autobiography, Mein Kampf (My Struggle). He is released from jail in December.
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Beginning of Great Depression
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Adolf Hitler Appointed Chancellor of Germany
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Nazis burn Reichstag building to create crisis atmosphere.
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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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The Gestapo is created by Hermann Göring
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In July - Nazis pass law allowing for forced sterilization of those that have genetic defects.
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Nazis prohibit Jews from owning land
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Nazis pass a Law against Habitual and Dangerous Criminals, which allows beggars, the homeless, alcoholics and the unemployed to be sent to concentration camps.
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German President von Hindenburg dies. Hitler becomes Führer.
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Hitler receives a 90 percent 'Yes' vote from German voters approving his new powers.
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Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military
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June 26, 1935 - Nazis pass law allowing forced abortions on women to prevent them from passing on hereditary diseases.
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February 10, 1936 - 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.
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Nazis destroy the synagogue in Nuremberg.
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Nazi troops occupy the Sudetenland
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October 28, 1938 - Nazis arrest 17,000 Jews of Polish nationality living in Germany, then expel them back to Poland which refuses them entry, leaving them in 'No-Man's Land' near the Polish border for several months.
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Jewish students are expelled from all non-Jewish schools.
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German Jews denied the right to hold government jobs.
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Jews in Germany are forbidden to be outdoors after 8 p.m. in winter and 9 p.m. in summer.
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Great Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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September 23, 1939 - German Jews are forbidden to own wireless (radio) sets.
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Yellow stars required to be worn by Polish Jews over age 10.
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British bombing raids begin over Hamburg
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February 22, 1941 - 430 Jewish hostages are deported from Amsterdam after a Dutch Nazi is killed by Jews.
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Japanese attack United States at Pearl Harbor. The next day the U.S. and Great Britain declare war on Japan.
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Hitler declares war on the United States. President Roosevelt then asks Congress for a declaration of war on Germany saying, "Never before has there been a greater challenge to life, liberty and civilization." The U.S.A. then enters the war in Europe and
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In January - Mass killings of Jews using Zyklon-B (gas poison) begin at Auschwitz with the bodies being buried in mass graves in a nearby meadow.
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German Jews are banned from using public transportation.
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Reduction of food rations for Jews in Germany.
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Nazis order all Gypsies arrested and sent to extermination camps.
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American Jews hold a mass rally at Madison Square Garden to pressure the U.S. government into helping the Jews of Europe
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Allies carpet bomb Hamburg, killing at least 43,000 people
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Two hundred Jews escape from Treblinka extermination camp during a revolt. Nazis then hunt them down one by one.
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D-Day
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Anne Frank and family captured by Gestapo
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Nazis force 25,000 Jews to walk over 100 miles in rain and snow from Budapest to the Austrian border, followed by a second forced march of 50,000 persons, ending at Mauthausen.
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Late 1944 - Oskar Schindler saves 1200 Jews by moving them from Plaszow labor camp to his hometown of Brunnlitz.
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In 1945 - As Allied troops advance, the Nazis conduct death marches of concentration camp inmates away from outlying areas.
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Russians liberate Budapest, freeing over 80,000 Jews.
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Nazis evacuate 66,000 from Auschwitz
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Russian troops liberate Auschwitz. By this time, an estimated 2,000,000 persons, including 1,500,000 Jews, have been murdered there.
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Anne dies of typhus in Bergen-Belsen
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Allies liberate Buchenwald
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Approximately 40,000 prisoners freed at Bergen-Belsen by the British
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Hitler commits suicide in his bunker.
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Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps.
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End of Holocaust
