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| 1934 |
| | | Mohammed Ali Jinnah becomes president of the Muslim League in India | |
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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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| 1937 |
| | | Pope Pius XI issues an encyclical, Mit Brennender Sorge, condemning the Nazi ideology of racism | |
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| 1937 |
| | | Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller is arrested for defying the Nazis and spends the next eight years in concentration camps | |
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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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| 1939 |
| | | Eugenio Pacelli is elected pope and takes the name Pius XII | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Mohammed Ali Jinnah puts forward the concept of independent Muslim states within India | |
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| 1940 |
| | | Roger Schutz establishes an ecumenical religious order at Taiz&eachute; in France | |
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