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Hitler appointed to chancellor of Germany
Hitler appointed to chancellor of Germany. -
First concentration camp Dachau
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Nazis stage boycott of Jewish shops and businesses
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Burning of books in Berlin and throughout Germany.
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Nazis prohibit Jews from owning land.
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Hitler becomes Fuhrer
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Jews banned from serving in Gerrman armies
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Numbering Laws enacted
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The German Gestapo is placed above the law.
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Buchenwald concentration camp opened
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Nazis order Jews to register wealth and property.
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Nazis order Jewish-owned businesses to register.
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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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Jewish doctors prohibited by law from practicing medicine.
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Jews are prohibited from all legal practices.
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First Polish Jews deported from Germany
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Law requires Jewish passports to be stamped with a big red "J."
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Kristallnacht.
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Jewish pupils are expelled from all non-Jewish German schools.
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Nazis force Jews to hand over all gold and silver items.
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Great Britain and France declare war on Germany.
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Yellow stars required to be worn by Polish Jews over age 10.
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Some time in January a pogrom in Romania results in over 2,000 Jews killed.
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Nazis choose the town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in Poland near Krakow as the site of a new concentration camp.
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First deportation of German Jews into occupied Poland.
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Rudolf Höss is chosen to be kommandant of Auschwitz.
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France signs an armistice with Hitler.
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Tripartite (Axis) Pact signed by Germany, Italy and Japan.
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Vichy France passes its own version of the Nuremberg Laws.
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German Jews ordered into forced labor.
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Romanian troops conduct a pogrom against Jews in the town of Jassy, killing 10,000.
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3,800 Jews killed during a pogrom by Lithuanians in Kovno.
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German Jews ordered to wear yellow stars.
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The first test use of Zyklon-B gas at Auschwitz.
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Mass killings of Jews using Zyklon-B begin at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Bunker I (the red farmhouse).
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In occupied Poland, Belzec extermination camp becomes operational. The camp is fitted with permanent gas chambers using carbon monoxide piped in from engines placed outside the chamber, but will later substitute Zyklon-B.
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Jews in France, Holland, Belgium, Croatia, Slovakia, Romania ordered to wear yellow stars.
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At Auschwitz, a second gas chamber, Bunker II (the white farmhouse), is made operational at Birkenau due to the number of Jews arriving.
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Open pit burning of bodies begins at Auschwitz in place of burial. The decision is made to dig up and burn those already buried, 107,000 corpses, to prevent fouling of ground water.
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Germans surrender to Russian troops at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies.
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D-Day: Allied landings in Normandy on the coast of northern France.
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Russian troops liberate the first concentration camp, at Majdanek where over 360,000 had been murdered.
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Last use of the gas chambers at Auschwitz.
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Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker.
Americans also free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps.
