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Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000. -
Banned from serving
May 21, 1935 - Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military. -
"J" becomes stamped on passports
Law requires Jewish passports to be stamped with a large red "J." -
Pearl Harbor
Japanese attack United States at Pearl Harbor. The next day the U.S. and Great Britain declare war on Japan. -
Gas vans
Gas vans used in Riga. -
Extermination camps
Nazis order all Gypsies arrested and sent to extermination camps. -
gas chamber
Newly built gas chamber/crematory IV opens at Auschwitz. -
Oskar saves 1200
Oskar Schindler saves 1200 Jews by moving them from Plaszow labor camp to his hometown of Brunnlitz. -
freed from concentration camps
Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps. -
Hitlers dead
Adolf Hitler committed suicide by gunshot