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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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