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-Peace treaty at end of WWI
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-Intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War
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-Hitler and Nazis hatched plot to kidnap leaders of Bavarian government and force them at gunpoint to accept Hitler as their leader
-Then, with aid of General Erich Ludendorff, they would win over the German army, proclaim a nationwide revolt and bring down the German democratic government in Berlin -
-"My Struggle"
-autobiographical manifesto
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-Makes Nazis the second largest political party in Germany
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-in Berlin, Germany
-originally constructed to house Imperial Diet of German Empire -
-Oranienburg outside Berlin
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-campaign conducted by German Student Union
-ceremonially burn books in Nazi Germany and Austria
-classical liberal, anarchist, socialist, pacifist, Communist, Jewish, etc authors whose writings were viewed as subversive or whose ideologies undermined National Socialist administration -
-intended to hold political prisoners
-first of Nazi concentration camps opened in Germany -
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-Japan, Italy, Spain, etc also withdrew
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-AKA "Operation Hummingbird"
-series of political murders
-most who were killed were against Hitler -
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-introduces military conscription
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-German Jews stripped of rights
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-Gestapo: official secret police of Nazi Germany
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-violation of Treaty of Versailles
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-Mussolini influenced Hitler and was later influenced by him
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-assented to annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland region into Greater Germany
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-also German troops occupy the Sudetenland
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-pogrom against Jews w/ no authority intervention
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-also civilian evacuations begin from London
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-also Battle of the Atlantic begins
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-also Reinhard Heydrich becomes the leader of new Reich Main Security Office
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-also Winston Churchill becomes British Prime Minister
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-also Italy declares war on Britain and France
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Becomes his master in his studies of Kabbalah
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-also Hitler issues the Night and Fog decree
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No longer wants to live
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Treated like they were less than dirt
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German soldiers were distant but polite.
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Could have been liberated if they had stayed
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Admits that he was secretly glad
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During an interview with the distinguished French writer, Francois Mauriac, Elie is persuaded to write about his experiences in the death camps.
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Shortly after moving to New York City to be a permanent correspondent
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Recovered from his injuries but still a stateless person with expired visas
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La Nuit (appearing in 1960 in English translation as Night) is published, and has since been translated into more than 30 languages
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Elie Wiesel returns to Sighet and visits his childhood home. He receives the Ingram Merill award and publishes The Town Beyond the Wall.
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His son, Elisha Shlomo, is born. Elie Wiesel also serves as Distinguished Professor of Judaic Studies at the City University of New York (1972–1976)
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Elie Wiesel receives the Jewish Heritage Award, Haifa University, and the Holocaust Memorial Award, New York Society of Clinical Psychologists
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Since 1976, he has been the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, where he also holds the title of University Professor.
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He recieves the Prix Liber Inter, France, the S.Y. Agnon Medal, and the Jabotinsky Medal, State of Israel
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Soon after, he and his wife, Marion, establish The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity, an organization to fight indifference, intolerance and injustice
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Elie Wiesel gives address at the opening of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The Museum opens to the public.
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In November Wiesel addresses the Tribute to Holocaust Survivors, at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
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In July Elie Wiesel delivers remarks “On the Atrocities in Sudan” at the Darfur Emergency Summit, convened at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York on July 14, 2004, by the American Jewish World Service and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In September US Secretary of State Colin Powell testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that "genocide has been committed in Darfur."
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Elie Wiesel receives the Man of the Year award from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Light of Truth award from the International Campaign for Tibet, and publishes The Time of the Uprooted, a novel
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