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Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany.
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First concentration camp was established at Dachau, Germany for political opponents
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Nazis organized a nationwide boycott of Jewish-owned businesses in Germany.
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Jewish teachers to be discharged.
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First anti-Jewish laws were passed. Jews are no longer allowed to be public employees (teachers, post office workers, and government workers).
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Jews expelled from sports clubs.
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Nazis burn books of those considered un-German. This introduces the idea of censorship and government control of culture.
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Jews cannot belong to the German Automobile Club.
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Jewish actors and actresses prohibited from performing
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Jewish writers no longer allowed to write.
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Jewish musicians prohibited from performing.
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Nazi government declared "racial laws," making Jews non-citizens and forbidding marriage between Jews and non-Jews. These laws are commonly known as the Nuremberg Laws.
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Summer Olympic Games
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The summer Olympic Games are held in Berlin, Germany. The Nazis remove anti-Jewish signs from public display and restrained anti-Jewish activities to avoid international criticism.
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Jews were not allowed to graduate.
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Germany annexes Austria ( Anschluss). Thousands of Austrian Jews flee due to harsh anti-Jewish actions that follow.
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Jewish doctors can no longer practice.
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Streets with Jewish names to be renamed.
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Jews to add middle name of "Sarah" of "Israel".
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Kristallnacht
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In a nationwide pogrom (attack) called Kristallnacht, the Nazis and their collaborators burn synagogues and loot Jewish homes and businesses. Approximately 30,000 Jewish men imprisoned in concentration camps.
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Jews not allowed to go to movies, operas, and concerts.
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Jews to hand in drivers licenses.
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Jews not allowed to use swimming pools.
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Jews to turn in gold, silver,platinum, and pearls.
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Jew's last will and testaments are no longer valid.
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German troops invade Poland, marking the beginning of World War II.
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Jews to turn in radios.
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Nazi government begins program to kill mentally and physically disabled people in a "euthanasia" program known as the "T-4 Program."
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German authorities begin forced deportation of Jews from West Prussia, Poznan, Danzig, and Lodz to locations in the General Government (formerly Poland).
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German troops invade the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France.
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Jews allowed to shop for food between 4 pm and 5 pm only.
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All Jews to perform forced labor.
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German mobile killing squads, Einsatzgruppen, were assigned to identify, concentrate, and kill Jews behing the front lines.
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German troops invade the Soviet Union.
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Jews not allowed to use public libraries.
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Jews over the age of six who reside in Germany had to wear a yellow Star of David in public at all times.
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Deportation of Jews from Germany to the ghettos of Lodz, Riga, and Minsk begins.
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Jews no longer allowed to emigrate.
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Gassing operations began at he Chelmno killing center.
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Jews not allowed to use public telephone.
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Nazi officials meet in Wannsee to organize the Final Solution (mass murder of Jews in Europe).
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Bakeries and candy stores off-limits to Jews.
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Jews not allowed to purchase newspapers or magazines.
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Jews not allowed to have pets.
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Jews not allowed to go to school.
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No milk for Jews.
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First direct deportation to Auschwitz.
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Jews cannot testify in court against Germans.
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Supplying Jews with meat and meat products prohibited.
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Jews not allowed to buy books.
