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| 1917 |
| | | Foreign Secretary A.J. Balfour declares Britain's conditional support for a homeland in Palestine for the Jews | |
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| 1920 |
| | | The Haganah is set up as an underground military organization to protect Jewish settlements in Palestine | |
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| 1929 |
| | | Arabs in the Palestinian town of Hebron turn on their Jewish neighbours and murder sixty-seven | |
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| 1931 |
| | | Irgun, a new Jewish paramilitary group, is set up by Haganah commanders frustrated by the older organization's policies | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Adolf Hitler passes a law forcing the 'retirement' of all Jews working in the civil service, schools and universities | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Adolf Hitler promulgates a law prohibiting any sexual relationship between Jews and 'Aryans' | |
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| 1935 |
| | | New Nazi laws announced at Nuremberg strip Jews of their German citizenship | |
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| 1938 |
| | | Left-wingers and Jews suffer immediate persecution in Nazi Austria, now part of Germany | |
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| 1938 November 9 |
| | | Nazi gangs smash the premises of Jews throughout Germany and Austria in a night that becomes known as Kristallnacht, the night of cut glass | |
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| 1941&nbIsp; May |
| | | In preparation for the invasion of Russia, Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler set up Special Task Commandos (Einsatzkommando) to exterminate Communists and Jews | |
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