The Nuremberg Laws enshrined anti-semitic discrimination in the legal framework of the country through two pieces of legislation.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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On the 27th January 1945, Soviet soldiers from the 322nd Rifle Division liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp near the Polish city of Oświęcim.
On the 12th June 1942, Anne Frank received a diary as a thirteenth birthday present from her father.
The future Roman Emperor Titus began the Siege of Jerusalem, during which the Second Temple was burned and destroyed.
Anti-Semitic attacks spread across England and reached York in March 1190.
On the 20th January 1942, a number of senior Nazis met at the Wannsee Conference where they discussed what was referred to as the Final Solution to the Jewish Question.
The Jewish population of Basel were massacred amidst accusations that they were responsible for causing the Black Death.
Relations between Catholicism and Judaism cover a long, complex and violent history in which Christians revered the Jewish scriptures yet held Jews collectively responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus.
The origin for the scandal lay in the discovery of a ripped-up letter in a waste basket at the German Embassy in Paris.
Einstein, who was Jewish, was undertaking a visiting professorship at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor on 30 January 1933.
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15th September 1935: Nazi Germany introduces the discriminatory ‘Nuremberg Laws’
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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