1. Timeline of the Holocaust

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Jan 30, Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany with population of 566,000 Jews

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March 22, Nazis open 4 Concentration Camps: Dachau Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen Ravensbrück for women.

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April 11, Nazis issue a decree defining a non-Aryan as "anyone descended from non-Aryan, especially Jewish, parents or grandparents.

5. Holocaust Time Line For the rest of the 1933, the Nazi’s
Prevented Jews from owning Land
Stripped Jews of German Citizenship
Allowed for forced sterilization
Prevented Jews from working for newspapers
Allows beggars, the homeless, alcoholics and the unemployed to be sent to concentration camps.

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Jan 24, Jews are banned from the German Labor Front.
May 17, Jews not allowed national health insurance.

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Aug 19, Hitler receives a 90 percent 'Yes' vote from German voters approving his new powers.

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Sept 15, Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews decreed.

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Aug 1, Olympic games begin in Berlin. Hitler and top Nazis temporarily refrain from actions against Jews.

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In Jan Jews are banned from many professional occupations; teachers, accountants, and dentists

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March 12/13, 1938 – Anschluss of Austria: Nazi troops enter Jewish population of 200,000

14. Nov 9/10 - Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass
Nov 9/10 - Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass. A massive coordinated attack on Jewish businesses and homes

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In May The St. Louis, a ship crowded with 930 Jewish refugees, is turned away by Cuba, the United States and other countries and returns to Europe.

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Sept 1, Nazis invade Poland (Jewish pop million, the largest in Europe).

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Sept 21, Hitler issues instructions that Jews are to be gathered into ghettos near railroads for the future "final goal.“

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In Jan Quote from Nazi newspaper, Der Stürmer, published by Julius Streicher
"...The time is near when a machine will go into motion which is going to prepare a grave for the world's criminal - Judah - from which there will be no resurrection."

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In Nov The Krakow Ghetto is sealed off containing 70,000 Jews.
The Warsaw Ghetto, containing over 400,000 Jews, is sealed off.

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In Jan Mass killings of Jews using Zyklon-B begin at Auschwitz

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Nov 4, Quote from Nazi newspaper, Der Stürmer, published by Julius Streicher
"It is actually true that the Jews have, so to speak, disappeared from Europe and that the Jewish 'Reservoir of the East' from which the Jewish pestilence has for centuries beset the peoples of Europe has ceased to exist. But the Führer of the German people at the beginning of the war prophesied what has now come to pass."

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Summer Auschwitz-Birkenau records 9000 people gassed and burned in one day.

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Jan 27, Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz. By this time, an estimated 2,000,000 persons, including 1,500,000 Jews, have been murdered there.

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April 10, Allies liberate Buchenwald.

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April 29, U.S. 7th Army liberates Dachau.

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April 30, Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps.
May 5, Mauthausen liberated.
May 7, Unconditional German surrender