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Appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Von Hindenburg
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opens in Dachau, a small village located near Munich
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On Jewish shops and businesses
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excluding East European Jewish immigrants of German citizenship
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himself Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Reich Chancellor). Armed forces must now swear allegiance to him
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first anti-Jewish racial laws enacted; Jews no longer considered German citizens; Jews could not marry Aryans; nor could they fly the German flag
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Germany defines a "Jew": anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew
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march into the Rhineland, previously demilitarized by the Versailles Treaty
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Form Rome-Berlin Axis
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all antisemitic decrees immediately applied in Austria
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Held in Evian, France on the problem of Jewish refugees
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establishes the Office of Jewish Emigration in Vienna to increase the pace of forced emigration
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enacts sweeping antisemitic laws
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Great Britain and France agree to German occupation of the Sudetenland, previously western Czechoslovakia
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anti-Jewish pogrom in Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland; 200 synagogues destroyed; 7,500 Jewish shops looted; 30,000 male Jews sent to concentration camps (Dachau, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen)
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Germany invades Poland. In the following weeks, 16.336 civilians are murdered by the Nazies in 714 localities. At least 5,000 victims were Jews
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occupied Poland forced to wear an arm band or yellow star.
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such as the Lodz and Warsaw were sealed
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begin rounding up Polish Jews for transfer to Warsaw Ghetto. 10,000 Jews died by starvation in the ghetto between January and June 1941.
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invades Soviet Union
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attack Pearl Harbor
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Declares war on Japan and Germany
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Heydrich outlines plan to murder Europe's Jews
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A group of German Officers attempt to assassinate Hitler
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Revolt by inmates at Auschwitz; one crematorium blown up;
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approximately 40,000 Jews from Budapest to Austria.
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