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1935

November 14     Additions to Nuremberg Laws


1936

November 25     Germany and Japan conclude Anti-Comintern Pact


1937

November 05     German army ordered to prepare for war
November 26     Reshuffling of portfolios: Schacht resigns


1938

November 7-10  Grynszpan affair and the Kristallnacht pogrom
November 10    
Italy adopts antisemitic racial laws
November 12     Harsh anti-Jewish measures
November 15     Jewish children banned from German schools


1939

November 08     Failed attempt to assassinate Hitler in Munich
November 09     Lodz incorporated into Reich
November 23     Jews in Poland must wear the Jewish Badge
November 30     Soviets invade Finland


1940

November 15     Warsaw ghetto sealed


1941

November 01     Construction of Belzec camp begins
November 24     "Model camp" established in Theresienstadt
November 30     30,000 Riga Jews arrested subsequently shot at Rumbuli


1942

November 01     First deportation from Bialystok District to Auschwitz
November 05    
Europa Rescue Plan
November 08    
U.K. and U.S. invade Northern Africa
November 09     Germany occupies Tunisia
November 10     British victories in Egypt
November 19     Soviet counterattack near Stalingrad


1943

November 03     Germans launch “Operation Harvest Festival” (Erntefest)
November 17
     Jewish partisans liberate Jews in Borshchev
November 28
    Teheran conference


1944

November 08     Deportations from Budapest resume
November 25     Germans stop gassings at Auschwitz

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