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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 Romanies ("Gypsies"),
Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals. Many
are sent to concentration
camps.
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JULY
The Evian Conference: delegates
from 32 countries are gathered at an
international conference called by
Franklin D. Roosevelt in Évian-Les
Bains, a small French spa on Lake Geneva.
Their purpose was to discuss the plight of
the growing number of Jewish refugees who
were fleeing Hitler's Europe. Germany has
boycotted the conference, but secretly
arranged to send an unofficial
representative as Hitler wanted to sell
his Jews to the nations of the world, for
$250 per person, or $1,000 a
family.
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 concentration
camp survivors.
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