The Holocaust
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Updated: 3 Mar 2020
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Created bySokona Garrels
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German Parliament passes Enabling Act giving Hitler dictatorial powersNazi Party is declared the only legal party in Germany; Also, Nazis pass Law to strip Jewish immigrants from Poland of their German citizenshipNazis prohibit Jews from owning landJews are prohibited from being newspaper editorsJews not allowed national health insuranceJews are prohibited from getting legal qualificationsGerman President von Hindenburg dies. Hitler becomes Führer.Hitler receives a 90 percent 'Yes' vote from German voters approving his new powersNuremberg Race Laws against Jews decreedThe German Gestapo is placed above the law.Jews are banned from many professional occupations including teaching Germans, and from being accountants or dentists. They are also denied tax reductions and child allowancesJewish doctors prohibited by law from practicing medicineNazis require Jewish women to add Sarah and men to add Israel to their names on all legal documents including passports.Jews are prohibited from all legal practicesLaw requires Jewish passports to be stamped with a large red "J."Kristallnacht - The Night of Broken Glass.Nazis fine Jews one billion marks for damages related to KristallnachtHitler threatens Jews during Reichstag speechNazis force Jews to hand over all gold and silver itemsJews in Germany are forbidden to be outdoors after 8 p.m. in winter and 9 p.m. in summer.German Jews ordered into forced laborThe first test use of Zyklon-B gas at AuschwitzGerman Jews ordered to wear yellow stars.Mass killings of Jews using Zyklon-B begin at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Bunker I (the red farmhouse) in Birkenau with the bodies being buried in mass graves in a nearby meadowIn occupied Poland, Sobibor extermination camp becomes operational. The camp is fitted with three gas chambers using carbon monoxide piped in from engines, but will later substitute Zyklon-BAt Auschwitz, a second gas chamber, Bunker II (the white farmhouse), is made operational at Birkenau due to the number of Jews arriving.Himmler grants permission for sterilization experiments at AuschwitzPeriods
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