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Holocaust Timeline
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Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship
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German police raid Hitler's nazi-headquarter
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German president von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor
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Nazi Germany begins persecution of Jews boycotting Jewish businesses
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Jews are banned from the German Labor Front.
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German President von Hindenburg dies. Hitler becomes Führer.
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Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military.
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Nazis pass law allowing forced abortions on women to prevent them from passing on hereditary diseases.
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The German Gestapo is placed above the law.
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Nazis occupy the Rhineland.
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Jews are banned from many professional Occupations
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'Eternal Jew' travelling exhibition opens in Munich.
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Nazis order Jews to register wealth and property.
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Jewish pupils are expelled from all non-Jewish German schools.
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Hitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speech
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Yellow stars required to be worn by Polish Jews over age 10
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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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The Warsaw Ghetto, containing over 400,000 Jews, is sealed off
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The first test use of Zyklon-B gas at Auschwitz.
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Hitler declares war on the United States
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Beginning of deportation of Dutch Jews to Auschwitz
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Sterilization experiments on women at Birkenau begin.
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Germans surrender to Russian troops at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies.
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The Bermuda Conference occurs as representatives from the United States and Britain discuss the problem of refugees from Nazi-occupied countries, but results in inaction concerning the plight of the Jews.
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D-Day: Allied landings in Normandy on the coast of northern France
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Himmler orders destruction of the crematories at Auschwitz.
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Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker.
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Unconditional German surrender signed by General Alfred Jodl at Reims.
