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Adolf Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany
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The road to Auschwitz
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aryan and non- Aryan children can't play together
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First concentration camp established at Dachau, Germany for political opponents
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Nazis organize a nationwide boycott of Jewish-owned businesses in Germany
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First anti- Jewish laws passed, Jews are no longer allowed to be public employees (teachers, post office workers, government workers)
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Jewish teachers to be discharged
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Jews expelled from sports clubs
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Nazis burn books of those considered un-German. This introduces the idea of censorship and government control of culture
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Nazi government declared "racial laws", making Jews non-citizens and forbidding marriage between Jews and non- Jews. These laws are commonly known as the Nuremberg laws
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The summer Olympic Games are held in Berlin, Germany. The Nazis remove anti-Jewish signs from public display and restrained anti-Jewish activites to avoid international criticism.
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Olympic Games.
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Jew were not allowed to graduate
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Germany annexes Austria. Thousands of Austrian Jews flee due to harsh anti-Jewish actions that follow
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Jewish doctors can no longer practice
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Streets with Jewish name to be renamed
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Jews to add middle name of "sarah" or "israel"
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In a nationwide pogrom called Kristallnacht, the Nazis and their collaborators burn synagogues and loot Jewish homes and businesses. Approximately 30,000 Jewish men imprisioned in concentration camps.
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Jewish employees may be discharged without notice or benefits
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Jewish children no longer allowed to attend public schools
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Jews had to hand in drivers licenses
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Jews not allowed to use swimming pools
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Jews not allowed to taje jewlery or other valuables when emigrating
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Jews to turn in gold, silver, platinum, pearls
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Jew's last will and testaments were no longer valid
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German troops invade Poland, marking the beginning of World War ll.
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Jews not allowed to leave their home after 8:00pm; 9:00 pm in the summer
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Jews to turn in radios
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Nazi government begins program to kill mentally and physically disabled people in a "euthanasia" program known as the "T-4 program."
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German authorities begin forced deporation of jews from west Prussia, Poznan, Danzig and Lodz to locations in the General Government (formerly Poland)
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German troops invade the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France
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Jews allowed to shop for food between 4pm and 5pm only
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All jews to perform forced labor
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German troops invade the Soviet Union.
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Jews not allowed to obtain soap or shaving cream with ration cards
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Jews not allowed to use public library
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Jews over six years of age to wear yellow star with word "jew"
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Jews over the age of six who reside in Germany had to wear a yellow star of david in public at all times
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Deportation of Jews from Germany to the ghettos of Lodz, Riga, and Minsk begins.
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Jews no longer allowed to emigrate
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Gassing operations began at the Cheimno killing center
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Nazi officals meet in Wannsee to organize the Final solution
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Jews not allowed to have pets
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No milk
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First direct deportation to Auschwitz
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Jews can not testify in court against Germans.
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Jews not allowed to buy books