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1934

1/26/1934
German-Polish non-aggression pact
6/30/1934
"Night of the Long Knives"
7/25/1934
Nazi putsch in Austria fails
8/2/1934
Hindenburg dies

1935

1/13/1935
Germany reclaims Saar region
2/10/1935
Prohibition of gatherings urging Jews to remain in Germany
3/16/1935
Military conscription in Germany
5/12/1935
Death of Pilsudski
5/31/1935
German army becomes "all-Aryan"
6/11/1935
"Jews Not Welcome" signs temporarily removed
6/18/1935
German-British Naval Agreement Concluded
9/15/1935
Nuremberg Laws enacted
10/30/1935
Italy attacks Ethiopia
11/14/1935
Additions to Nuremberg Laws

1936

3/7/1936
Germans enter Rhineland
3/15/1936
Mass anti-Nazi rally in New York
6/17/1936
Himmler appointed Chief of Police
7/16/1936
Spanish Civil War begins
8/1/1936
Olympic Games begin in Berlin
9/9/1936
Four-Year Plan
10/9/1936
Political activities of Association of Jewish War Veterans banned
10/25/1936
Rome-Berlin Axis Agreement signed
11/25/1936
Germany and Japan Conclude Anti-Comintern Pact

1937

3/21/1937
Pope issues statement against racism
9/13/1937
Jews can be released from "protective detention" by emigrating
10/21/1937
Himmler: returning emigres will be sent to concentration camps
11/5/1937
German Army Ordered to Prepare for War
11/26/1937
Reshuffling of Portfolios: Schacht Resigns
12/29/1937
Antisemitic legislation passed in Romania

1938

3/13/1938
Anschluss: Reich Annexes Austria
3/23/1938
Recognition of Jewish organizations revoked
3/28/1938
Hitler incites Sudeten German party
6/14/1938
Jewish businesses registered since April are marked
6/15/1938
"Operation June"-mass arrests of Jews and banishment to concentration camps
7/6/1938
Evian Conference
7/6/1938
Anti-Jewish economic strictures
8/17/1938
Compulsory middle names for Jews
8/26/1938
Jewish emigration office opens in Vienna
9/27/1938
Jewish lawyers disbarred
9/29/1938
Munich Agreement: England and France accept German annexation of parts of Czechoslovakia
10/5/1938
Passports of German Jews marked with the letter "J"
10/6/1938
Germany annexes Sudetenland
10/28/1938
17,000 Polish-Born Jews expelled from Germany to Poland; most interned in Zbaszyn
11/9/1938
Grynszpan Affair and the Kristallnacht Pogrom
11/10/1938
Italy adopts antisemitic racial laws
11/12/1938
Harsh anti-Jewish measures
11/15/1938
Jewish children banned from German schools

1939

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