| 16 December 1942 |
Germany
|
Roma and Sinti
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Himmler orders deportation of Roma and Sinti to Auschwitz
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| 20 January 1942 |
Germany
|
World War II
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Wannsee meeting coordinates deportation and mass murder
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| 1 September 1941 |
Germany
|
Jewish Holocaust
|
Jews in the German Reich are forced to wear the yellow star
|
| 31 July 1941 |
Germany
|
Jewish Holocaust
|
Göring authorizes Heydrich to coordinate a Europe-wide “solution”
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| 9 July 1941 |
Germany
|
Roma and Sinti
|
Two Roma are among the first prisoners documented at Auschwitz
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| 22 May 1940 |
Germany
|
Roma and Sinti
|
German authorities deport Sinti and Roma from Hohenasperg
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| 21 September 1939 |
Germany
|
Roma and Sinti
|
Heydrich discusses deporting Roma and Sinti to occupied Poland
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| 1 September 1939 |
Germany,
Poland
|
World War II
|
Germany invades Poland, opening the European war
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| 13 May 1939 |
Cuba,
Germany
|
Jewish Holocaust
|
The St. Louis sails with Jewish refugees
|
| 30 January 1939 |
Germany
|
Jewish Holocaust
|
Hitler publicly threatens the annihilation of European Jews
|
| 8 December 1938 |
Germany
|
Roma and Sinti
|
Himmler authorizes racialized persecution of Roma and Sinti
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| 15 November 1938 |
Germany
|
Jewish Holocaust
|
Jewish children are excluded from German public schools
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| 12 November 1938 |
Germany
|
Jewish Holocaust
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Nazi regime imposes collective fine after Kristallnacht
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| 9 November 1938 |
Austria,
Germany
|
World War II
|
Nazi pogroms target Jewish communities across Germany and Austria
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| 9 November 1938 |
Austria,
Germany
|
Jewish Holocaust
|
Kristallnacht unleashes coordinated anti-Jewish violence
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