1933
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30 January 1933
Hitler appointed as Chancellor
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27 February 1933
Reichstag fire
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5 March 1933
Reichstag Elections
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21 March 1933
'Day of Potsdam'
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22 March 1933
Dachau Established
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23 March 1933
Enabling Act
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1 April 1933
Boycott Day
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7 April 1933
'Reform' of the Civil Service
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21 April 1933
Ban on Ritual Slaughter
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10 May 1933
Book Burning
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14 July 1933
Sterilisation Law
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20 July 1933
Reich Concordat
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25 August 1933
Haavara Agreement
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17 September 1933
Reich Representative Council of German Jews
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22 September 1933
Law on Reich Chamber of Culture
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4 October 1933
Editorship Law
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14 October 1933
Germany Leaves the League of Nations
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1934
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26 January 1934
German-Polish Non-Aggression-Pact
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22 April 1934
Heydrich appointed Head of Gestapo
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30 June 1934
'Night of the Long Knives'
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20 July 1934
Independence of SS
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25 July 1934
Assassination of Dollfuss
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2 August 1934
Death of Hindenburg
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5 October 1934
NSDAP party rally at Nuremberg
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1935
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13 January 1935
Referendum on Saar
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16 March 1935
Germany Renews Conscription
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1 April 1935
Benches 'For Aryans only'
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25 May 1935
Anti-Jewish riots
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31 May 1935
Jews barred from military service
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18 June 1935
Anglo-German Naval Agreement
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16 July 1935
Anti-Jewish Demonstrations
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6 September 1935
Sale of newspapers to Jews prohibited
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15 September 1935
Nuremberg Laws
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15 September 1935
Prohibition of credits to Jews
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18 October 1935
Marriage Protection Laws
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1936
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6 February 1936
Winter Olympic Games
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7 March 1936
Invasion of Rhineland
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9 May 1936
End of second Italo-Abyssinian War
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12 July 1936
Sachsenhausen camp established
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17 July 1936
Spanish Civil War begins
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1 August 1936
Olympic Games
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25 October 1936
Agreement on the Rome-Berlin Axis
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18 November 1936
Germany sends military support to Franco in Spain
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25 November 1936
Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact
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1 December 1936
Compulsory Membership of Hitler Youth
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1937
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26 April 1937
German Bombing of Guernica
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15 July 1937
Buchenwald Camp established
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19 July 1937
Exhibition of 'Degenerate Art' opens
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25 September 1937
Mussolini visits Germany
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6 November 1937
Italy joins the Anti-Comintern Pact
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8 November 1937
Exhibition entitled 'The Eternal Jew' opens in Munich
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1938
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1 January 1938
Jews barred from Red Cross
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12 March 1938
German invasion of Austria and the Anschluss
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28 March 1938
Jewish organisations in Germany lose official status
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14 June 1938
Compulsory registration of Jewish businesses
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15 June 1938
Mass arrests of 'asocial' Jews
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6 July 1938
Conference of Evian
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17 August 1938
Compulsory middle name for Jews
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27 September 1938
Barring of Jewish lawyers in Germany
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29 September 1938
The Munich Conference
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5 October 1938
Jewish passports stamped with a 'J'
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10 October 1938
Annexation of the Sudetenland
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28 October 1938
Germany expels Polish Jews
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9 November 1938
November Pogrom
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15 November 1938
Expulsion of Jewish children from German schools
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1939
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15 March 1939
German invasion of Czechoslovakia
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23 August 1939
The German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
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1 September 1939
Germany invades Poland
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1 September 1939
Beginning of Operation T-4
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3 September 1939
Declaration of War
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21 September 1939
Deportation of Sinti and Roma
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8 November 1939
Attempted assassination of Hitler
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23 November 1939
Obligatory armbands for Jews in Poland
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30 November 1939
The USSR invades Finland
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1940
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9 April 1940
The German Army invade Denmark and Norway
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30 April 1940
Sealing of Lodz Ghetto
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10 May 1940
Churchill becomes Prime Minister
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26 May 1940
Evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk begins
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14 June 1940
Occupation of Paris
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10 July 1940
Battle of Britain begins
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7 September 1940
Beginning of the Blitz
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27 September 1940
Tripartite Pact
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3 October 1940
France introduces antisemitic legislation
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28 October 1940
Italian invasion of Greece
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15 November 1940
Sealing of the Warsaw Ghetto
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1941
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1 March 1941
Auschwitz-Birkenau constructed
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6 April 1941
German invasion of Greece and Yugoslavia
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22 June 1941
Operation Barbarossa begins
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20 August 1941
Deportation of Parisian Jews
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15 September 1941
Deportations to Transnistria
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19 September 1941
Jews ordered to wear Yellow Stars
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23 September 1941
Experimental gassing at Auschwitz
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29 September 1941
Killings at Babi Yar
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1 November 1941
Construction of Belzec camp begins
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24 November 1941
Theresienstadt established
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25 November 1941
Ordinance to Reich Citizenship Law
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7 December 1941
Japanese attack Pearl Harbour
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8 December 1941
United States declare war on Japan
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11 December 1941
Hitler declares war on the United States
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1942
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20 January 1942
Wannsee Conference
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27 March 1942
First transport of French Jews to Auschwitz
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24 April 1942
Ban on use of public transport
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27 May 1942
Assassination of Heydrich
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2 June 1942
First deportations to Theresienstadt
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30 June 1942
Closing of Jewish schools
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15 July 1942
Deportation of Jews from Amsterdam
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22 July 1942
Deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto
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28 October 1942
First deportation from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz
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16 December 1942
Transportation of Sinti and Roma to Auschwitz
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1943
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18 January 1943
Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto
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2 February 1943
German surrender at Stalingrad
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19 April 1943
The Warsaw Ghetto uprising
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25 July 1943
Dismissal and arrest of Mussolini
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2 August 1943
Uprising at Treblinka
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2 October 1943
Rescue of Danish Jews
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3 November 1943
Operation 'Erntefest'
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1944
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18 March 1944
German Occupation of Hungary
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10 April 1944
The Auschwitz Protocols
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15 May 1944
Deportation of Hungarian Jews
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6 June 1944
The Allies invade mainland Europe
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3 July 1944
Formation of Jewish Brigade
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23 July 1944
Red Cross visit to Theresienstadt
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23 July 1944
Liberation of Majdanek
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1945
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18 January 1945
Death March from Auschwitz
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27 January 1945
Liberation of Auschwitz
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13 February 1945
Dresden air raid
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11 April 1945
Liberation of Buchenwald
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15 April 1945
Liberation of Bergen-Belsen
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28 April 1945
Death of Mussolini
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29 April 1945
Liberation of Dachau
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30 April 1945
Hitler's suicide
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2 May 1945
Fall of Berlin
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7 May 1945
Germany surrenders
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8 May 1945
V-E Day
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16 July 1945
Potsdam Conference
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6 August 1945
Atomic bomb on Hiroshima
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9 August 1945
Atomic bomb on Nagasaki
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15 August 1945
Japan surrenders
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20 November 1945
Nuremberg trials
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