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March 13
Annexation of Austria (Anschluss)
April 26
Jews in Germany are forced to register their assets
June 14
Jewish businesses in Germany are forced to register
July 6
Evian Conference at which delegates from 32 countries
consider helping Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution,
but retain restrictive and inadequate immigration
quotas
July 25
Jewish doctors no longer allowed to practise medicine
and from July 27, Jewish lawyers cannot practise law;
Jewish street names are replaced
August 17
Law passed requiring Jews to change first names -
to operate from Jan. 1, 1939 (see later date)
September 29
Munich Agreement: Britain, France and Italy accept
German annexation of Sudetenland, part of Czechoslovakia
October 5
Passports of German Jews are marked with a 'J'. German
troops occupy the Sudetenland (part of Czechoslovakia).
October 28
About 15 000 'stateless' Jews are deported to Poland
from Germany
November 7
Hershel Grynspan (a Jew whose parents were deported
from Germany to Poland) shoots Ernst vom Rath, German
diplomat in Paris in protest against Nazi injustices
November 9
vom Rath dies. Goebbels uses this as an excuse to
order "spontaneous demonstrations" against
Jews throughout Germany and Austria in retaliation.
A pogrom (Kristallnacht - "The Night of
Broken Glass") begins
November 10
The progrom continues. Destruction of Jewish homes,
institutions and businesses throughout the Reich
November 11
Jews in Germany may no longer own or bear arms
November 12
Following Kristallnacht, Jews are ordered to
pay 'reparations' of one billion marks. They must
repair all damages at their own cost. Jews may no
longer head businesses. Jews may no longer attend
plays, movies, concerts or exhibitions.
26 000 Jews are arrested and sent to concentration
camps
November 15
Jewish children remaining in German schools are removed
to Jewish schools
November 23
All Jewish businesses in Germany are closed down
November 28
Jews may no longer be in certain districts at certain
times
December 3
Local authorities are allowed to bar Jews from the
streets. Jews must hand in their drivers' licences
and car registrations. Jews must sell their businesses,
real estate and hand over their securities and jewellery
December 8
Jews may no longer attend universities in Germany
December 13
Decree on 'Aryanization' (compulsory expropriation
of Jewish industries, businesses, real estate and
shops)
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