- Jewish timeline
- General timeline
- 1462 Frankfurt: Jews locked up at night
1500 Berlin Blood Libel 30-50 Jews burnt at stake
1669 50 Jews allowed to live in Berlin
1743 Moses Mendelssohn entered Berlin
1819 Reform Judaism
1840-1870 over 170,000 Jews immigrated to the United States
- 1871 German Empire after unifying states
- 1880s over 170,000 Jews in Berlin: 8th largest Jewish community
- 1882 Triple Alliance: Germany, Austria, Italy
- 1911 12 of 20 wealthiest people in Berlin are Jewish
1914 52% of Berlin physicians are Jewish
- 1914-1918 World War I 1.2 Million men died
January 1933 Hitler elected Chancellor
November 1933 33% of citizens voted for Nazis
November 1938 Kristallnacht – over 1,000 synagogues burnt
Sep. 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland
May 7, 1945 End of World War II, 45 million people dead
- 1945 about 6,000 Jews from Berlin survived
- 1948-1949 Berlin Blockade
1949 Bonn is the capital of West Germany
November 1989 Berlin Wall torn down, Germany united
- 2005 Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
2014 Jews are approximately 0.3% of total population: about
200,000 mostly Russian-speaking origin
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