Nazi Germany: Timeline

1933   Nazi Germany forms the Expert Committee on Questions of Population and Racial Policy under Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick.

1933   Nazi Germany outlaws kosher ritual shechita.

1933   Albert Einstein Albert Einstein

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 arrived in the United States United States

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 as a refugee from Nazi Germany.

1934   Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring."

1939   World War II World War II

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: Invasion of Poland - Nazi Germany attacks Poland Poland

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, beginning the Second World War in Europe Europe

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.

1940   The Faroe Islands Faroe Islands

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 were occupied by British troops following the invasion of Denmark Denmark

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 by Nazi Germany. This action was taken to avert a possible German occupation of the islands, which would have had very grave consequences for the course of the Battle of the Atlantic.

1940   World War II World War II

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: The Blitz - Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on London London

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. This will be the first of 57 consecutive nights of strategic bombing.

1940   First release of ''The Great Dictator'', directed by Charlie Chaplin Charlie Chaplin

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 who is cast as fascist dictator Dictator

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 Adenoid Hynkel, clearly modeled on Führer Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler

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 of Nazi Germany.

1940   World War II: The German Nazi Germany

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 Hilfskreuzer (cruiser) ''Atlantis'' captures top secret Top Secret

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 British United Kingdom

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 mail, and sends it to Japan Japan

is an island country [i] in East Asia [i]. ... 

1941   Mass murder of Polish scientists and writers, committed by German troops Nazi Germany

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 in captured Polish Poland

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 city of Lwów.

1941   Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler

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 orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's Nazi Germany

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 systematic euthanasia Euthanasia

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 of mentally ill and handicapped due to protests. However, graduates of the T-4 Euthanasia Program were then transferred to concentration camps, where they continued in their trade.

1942   Holocaust: In the United Kingdom United Kingdom

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, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jew Jew

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s. .]]

1943   Holocaust: German Nazi Germany

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 forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków Kraków

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1944   Battle of Normandy begins - ''Operation Overlord'', code named D-Day D-Day

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, commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied Allies

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 troops on the beaches of Normandy Normandy

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 in France France

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. The allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history. It also weakens Nazi Germany hold on Europe Europe

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1945   World War II: V-E Day (Victory in Europe, as Nazi Germany surrenders) commemorates the end of World War II World War II

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 in Europe Europe

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.

1949   Allied Allies

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 military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German Germany

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 control.