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Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation full of 566,000.
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40,000 SA and SS men are sworn in as auxiliary police
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The Nazi's burn Reichstag Building
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Today emergency powers were granted to Hitler
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German Parliament passes Enable Act giving Hitler dictatorial powers.
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Jews are banned from German Labor Front
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Jews are not allowed health insurance
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All jews are prohibited from getting legal qualifications.
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Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military.
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Nazis pass law allowing forced abortions on women to prevent them from passing on hereditary diseases.
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SS deathshead division is established to guard concentration camps
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Nazi's set up an office for combating homosexuality and abortions
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The German Gestapo is placed above the law.
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Jews are banned from many professional occupations including teaching Germans, and from being accountants or dentists. They are also denied tax reductions and child allowances.
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Nazi troops enter Austria, which has a population of 200,000 jews.
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Nazis prohibit Aryan 'front-ownership' of Jewish businesses.
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Nazis order Jews to register wealth and property.
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At Evian, France, the U.S. convenes a League of Nations conference with delegates from 32 countries to consider helping Jews fleeing Hitler, but results in inaction as no country will accept them.
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Nazis order Jews over age 15 to apply for identity cards from the police, to be shown on demand to any police officer.
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Jews lose rights as tenants and are relocated into Jewish houses.
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German Jews denied the right to hold government jobs.
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Jews in Germany are forbidden to be outdoors after 8 p.m. in winter and 9 p.m. in summer.
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Soviet troops invade eastern Poland.
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The Nazi's chose a site in poland for the concentration camps
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The first deportation to the poland concentration camp
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The Nazi's Invaded Denamark with a jewish popualtion of 8,000. Then also invaded Norway with a jewish population of 2,000.
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Nazi's invade France with a population of 350,000. Also invaded Belgium with a jewish population of 65,000. They invade Holland with a jewish population of 140,000. Also Luxembourg was invaded , their jewish population is 3,500.
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Nazis invade Russia (Jewish pop. 3 million).
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Hitler declares war on the United States. President Roosevelt then asks Congress for a declaration of war on Germany saying, "Never before has there been a greater challenge to life, liberty and civilization." The U.S.A. then enters the war in Europe and will concentrate nearly 90 percent of its military resources to defeat Hitler.
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Beginning of German Army attack on Stalingrad in Russia.