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Appointment of Hitler as chancellor of Germany
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Reichstag Fire Decree: declaration of the state of emergency and suspension of civil liberties.
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Dachau Concentration Camp opened.
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Enabling Act.
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first boycotts of Jewish businesses
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Approval of Civil Service Law: it removed Jews and political opponents of the Nazis from civil service positions and government jobs.
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Approval of the Education Law: it stated that Jewish students could not be more than 5% of the student population of any public school or university, being forced to leave public schools.
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Approval of the Sterilization Law: it allowed the Government to forcibly sterilize people with physical or mental disabilities not to have children.
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Approval of the Press Censorship Law
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Adolf Hitler, proclaimed “Führer”
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Approval of the mandatory military service.216
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Prohibition of Jehovah’s witness organization.
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Reinforcement of the prohibition of activities qualified as “homosexual”, being excluded of being accounted as German population.
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approval of the Laws of Nuremberg.
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Annexation of Austria
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Jewish Name Law: it forced the Jews who did not have a Jewish first name to take the middle names “Israel” for men and “Sara” for women.
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Sudetenland, ceded to Germany
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Polish Jews deported from Germany.
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Kristallnacht
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Germany annexed Czechoslovakia
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German-Soviet Pact of Non-Agression
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Germany invaded Poland. Beginning of the World War II.
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Approval of the Euthanasia Decree or “Operation T-4”. It would cause 250,000 deaths.
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Germany invaded Norway and Denmark
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Germany invaded Western Europe.
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Italy declared war on Britain and France
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First prisoners arrive at Auschwitz
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Axis alliance (Germany, Italy and Japan) is definteliy formed.
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Germany invaded Yugoslavia and Greece
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Germany invaded the Soviet Union
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Jewish badge, mandatory for Jewish population.
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Pearl Harbor attack by Japan. USA ented into the World War II.
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Mass murder began at Chelmno, the first stationary facility where the Nazis used poison gas for mass murder.
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Wannsee Conference: approval of mass murder of Jews (“Final Solution”).
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Beginning of “Operation Reinhard”, name of the plan to murder approximately two million of Jews in German-occupied Poland.
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Allied forces invaded North Africa
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Allies condemned in an official declaration the mass murder.
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German defeat at Stalingrad
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first transport of Gypsies to Auschwitz
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Beginning of the Warsaw ghetto uprise.
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Invasion of Sicily by Allied forces.
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Surrender of Italy.
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Germany occupied Hungary
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Beginning of the Normandy landings.
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Liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops
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Liberation of Buchenwald by American troops.
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Surrender of Germany. End of the World War II in Europe.