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The Holocaust began and Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000.
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Nazis burn Reichstag building to create crisis atmosphere.
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Emergency powers granted to Hitler as a result of the Reichstag fire.
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Jews are banned from the German Labor Front.
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Jews not allowed national health insurance.
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Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military.
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Nazis force Jewish performers/artists to join Jewish Cultural Unions.
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Nazis occupy the Rhineland.
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Nazis prohibited Jews from trading and providing a variety of specified commercial services.
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Nazis force Jews to hand over all gold and silver items.
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The first anti-Jewish measures are taken in Vichy France.
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23,000 Jews killed at Kamenets-Podolsk, in the Ukraine.
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First trainloads of Jews from Paris arrive at Auschwitz.
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Nazis order all Gypsies arrested and sent to extermination camps.
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The last transport of Jews to be gassed, 2,000 from Theresienstadt, arrives at Auschwitz.
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Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps.
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Theresienstadt taken over by the Red Cross
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For the western Allies, World War II officially ended in Europe on the next day, May 8
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In the aftermath of the Holocaust, many of the survivors found shelter in displaced persons (DP) camps administered by the Allied powers.
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