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JANUARY
The Nazi Party takes power in Germany, Hitler becomes Chancellor.
FEBRUARY
Nazis "temporarily restrict" civil liberties for
all citizens - never to be restored.
MARCH
The concentration camp at Dachau is established.
MAY
Trade unions are closed. Books declared contrary to Nazi beliefs
are publicly burned.
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SEPTEMBER
The German Government enacts the Nuremburg Laws - codifying
the "racial" definition of Jews depriving them of
citizenship and fundamental rights.
The Nazis intensify
persecution of political dissidents and others considered
"inferior" including Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses,
and homosexuals. Many are sent to concentration camps.
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NOVEMBER
Kristallnacht: "the Night of Broken Glass." Nazis
attack Jews throughout Germany - 30,000 Jews arrested. 91 Jews
killed. &,500 shops and businesses looted. More than 1,000
synagogues set afire.
Jewish children
are expelled from public schools.
DECEMBER
Nazis seize control of Jewish owned businesses.
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SEPTEMBER
Germany invades Poland. World War II begins. Nazis order Polish
Jews into restricted ghettos and force them into slave labor.
OCTOBER
Hitler orders the so-called "Euthanasia" program
leading to the systematic murder of the mentally and physically
disabled in Germany and Austria.
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FEBRUARY
Nazis begin deporting German Jews to Poland.
DECEMBER
Nazis begin the first mass murder of Jews at Treblinka
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JUNE
Germany attack the Society Union. Mobile killing units begin
the systematic slaughter of Jews.
SEPTEMBER
In two days, mobile killing units shoot 33,771 Ukranian Jews
at Babi Yar - the largest single massacre of the Holocaust.
DECEMBER
The death camp at Chelmno begins operation.
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JANUARY
Wannsee Conference
- The Nazis coordinate the "final Solution" - a plan
to kill all European Jews through mass exterminations.
Six death camps
equipped with gas chambers soon begin full scale operation
in Poland: Majdanek, Chelmno, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec,
and Auschewitz -Birkenau.
During peak
operations, thousands of people a day are murdered in these
death factories.
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MAY
U.S. and Allied forces defeat the Nazis and liberate the remaining
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