1933
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January 30
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Adolf Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany.
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March 20
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The first concentration camp is established in Nazi Germany at Dachau. The first prisoners are political opponents.
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April 7
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Jews are barred from government service; Jewish civil servants, including University professors and school teachers, are fired from their positions.
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May 10
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Books by Jews and opponents of Nazism are burned publicly.
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1934
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August 3
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Adolph Hitler declares himself president and chancellor of the Third Reich after the death of Paul von Hindenburg.
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October
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First major wave of arrests of homosexuals occurs throughout Germany, continuing into November.
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1935
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May
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"No Jews" signs and notices are posted outside German towns and villages, and outside shops and restaurants.
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1936
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March 3
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Jewish doctors are no longer permitted to practice in government institutions in Germany.
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July 12
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The first German Gypsies are arrested and deported to Dachau concentration camp.
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1937
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1938
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July 23
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The German government announces Jews must carry identification cards.
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November 9-10
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Kristallnacht ("Night of Broken Glass"): Nazi organized nation-wide pogroms result in the burning of hundreds of synagogues; the looting and destruction of many Jewish homes, schools, and community offices; vandalism; and the looting of 7,500 Jewish stores. Many Jews are beaten, and more than 90 are killed. Thirty-thousand Jewish men are arrested and imprisoned in concentration camps. Several thousand Jewish women are arrested and sent to local jails. This is followed by a punitive fine to be paid by the Jewish community for the damages done to their businesses and the accelerated "Aryanization" of Jewish businesses.
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November 15
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All Jewish children are expelled from German schools and can attend only separate Jewish schools.
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December 3
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Jews must sell their businesses and real estate and hand over their securities and jewelry to the government at artificially low prices.
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1939
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September 1
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The German army invades Poland and World War II begins.
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September 23
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Jews are forced to turn in radios, cameras, and other electric objects to the police. Jews receive more restrictive ration coupons than other Germans. They do not receive coupons for meat, milk, etc. Jews also receive fewer and more limited clothing ration cards than do Germans.
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October
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Hitler extends powers to doctors to kill institutionalized mentally and physically disabled persons in the "euthanasia" program.
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November 28
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The first Polish ghetto is established.
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1940
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May 1-7
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Approximately 164,000 Polish Jews are concentrated and imprisoned in the Lódz ghetto which is established and sealed off from the outside world.
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May 20
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A concentration camp is established at Auschwitz, Poland.
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October
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The Warsaw ghetto is established.
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November 15
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The Warsaw ghetto is closed off with approximately 500,000 inhabitants.
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1941
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June 22
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The German army invades the Soviet Union. The Einsatzgruppen, mobile killing squads, begin the mass murders of Jews, Gypsies, and Communist leaders.
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September 28-29
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Nearly 34,000 Jews are murdered by mobile killing squads at Babi Yar, near Kiev in the Ukraine.
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December-January
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Five thousand Austrian Gypsies from the Lódz ghetto are deported to the killing center at Chelmno where they are all killed in mobile gas vans.
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1942
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May 4-12
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Approximately ten thousand Jews, who had arrived in the Lódz ghetto some six months earlier from Germany, Luxembourg, Vienna, and Prague, are deported to Chelmno. Their baggage is confiscated before they board the train.
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June
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The German government closes all Jewish schools.
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June 1
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Treblinka death camp opens.
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June 1
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Jews in France and the Netherlands are required to wear identifying Stars of David.
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July 28
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Jewish fighting organizations established in the Warsaw ghetto.
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September 5-12
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Approximately fifteen thousand Jews in the Lódz ghetto are deported to Chelmno, mostly children under ten and individuals over sixty-five, but also others who are too weak or ill to work. By September 16, approximately fifty-five thousand Jews have been deported to the killing center at Chelmno.
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October 4
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All Jews in concentration camps in Germany are sent to death camp at Auschwitz.
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December 1
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A special internment camp for non-Jewish Polish youth is opened in Lódz.
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1943
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April 19-May,
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16 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto initiate resistance to deportation by the Germans to the death camps.
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March
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All Gypsies in Germany and Nazi occupied countries, with few exceptions, are arrested and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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June
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The Nazis order all of the ghettos in Poland and the Soviet Union destroyed.
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Fall
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The Danish citizens smuggle most of the nation's Jews to neutral Sweden.
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October 14
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The inmates at Sobibor initiate an armed rebellion.
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1944
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January
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The War Refugee Board is established by President Franklin Roosevelt.
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March
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The German army invades Hungary.
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May 15
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The Nazis begin deportation of Hungarian Jews. Over 430,000 Jews are sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau where most are gassed.
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July 20
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German officers fail and are caught in an attempt to assassinate Hitler.
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June 23-July 14
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Seven thousand one hundred ninety-six Jews are deported from the Lódz ghetto to Chelmno where they are killed.
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July 24
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The Soviet Army liberates the Majdanek death camp.
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October 7
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The prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau rebel and blow up one crematorium.
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1945
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January 17
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Nazis empty Auschwitz and start prisoners on "death marches" to Germany.
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April 30
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Adolph Hitler commits suicide in his bunker in Berlin rather than be caught by the advancing Soviet army.
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May 5
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Troops from the United States liberate Mauthausen concentration camp.
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May 7
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Germany surrenders and war in Europe is ended.
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