task 2 history imcy timeline about jewish events in ww2 1933-1939
Updated 17 Feb 2022
the timeline contains event about the second world war
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Jewish doctors barred from practicing medicine in German institutionsGermans march into the Rhineland, previously demilitarized by the Versailles TreatyHimmler appointed the Chief of German PoliceSachsenhausen concentration camp opensHitler and Mussolini form Rome-Berlin AxisBuchenwald concentration camp opensAnschluss all antisemitic decrees immediately applied in AustriaMandatory registration of all property held by Jews inside the ReichAdolf Eichmann establishes the Office of Jewish Emigration in Vienna to increase the pace of forced emigrationMunich Conference: Great Britain and France agree to German occupation of the Sudetenland, previously western CzechoslovakiaFollowing request by Swiss authorities, Germans mark all Jewish passports with a large letter "J" to restrict Jews from immigrating to Switzerland17,000 Polish Jews living in Germany expelled; Poles refused to admit them; 8,000 are stranded in the frontier village of ZbaszynAssassination in Paris of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel GrynszpanKristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass): anti-Jewish pogrom in Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland;All Jewish pupils expelled from German schoolsHitler in Reichstag speech: "if war erupts it will mean the Vernichtung (extermination) of European Jews"Germans occupy CzechoslovakiaMolotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed: non-aggression pact between Soviet Union and GermanyBeginning of World War II: Germany invades PolandGermany begins deportation of Austrian and Czech Jews to PolandFirst Polish ghetto established in PiotrkówJews in German-occupied Poland forced to wear an arm band or yellow starAdolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of GermanyDachau concentration camp opensApril 1
Boycott of Jewish shops and businessesGestapo establishedPublic burning of books written by Jews, political dissidents, and others not approved by the stateLaw stripping East European Jewish immigrants of German citizenshipHitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler (Leader and Reich Chancellor). Armed forces must now swear allegiance to himJews barred from serving in the German armed forces"Nuremberg Laws": anti-Jewish racial laws enacted; Jews no longer considered German citizens; Jews could not marry Aryans; nor could they fly the German flagGermany defines a "Jew": anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew
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