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Nazi party declared only legal party in Germany
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Jews cannot own land, work, or have health insurance
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German President von Hindenburg dies. Hitler becomes Fuhrer
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Nazi troops enter Austria and announce union with the country
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Nazis establish concentration camp for the 200,000 Jews in Austria
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Many Jewish rights are stripped by the Nazis, including the placement of a big red "J" on their passports
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Nazi troops seize Czechoslovakia
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Nazis take Poland
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Great Britain and France declare war on Germany
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Yellow stars required to be worn by Polish Jews over age 10
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Auschwitz becomes newest concentration camp
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Nazis invade Norway and Denmark
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Nazis invade France, Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg
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Nazis plan to send all European Jews to island off the coast of Africa, Madagascar
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Tripartite Axis Pact signed by Germany, Italy, and Japan
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Nazis invade Romania
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Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia become Nazi allies
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Birkenau becomes newest concentration camp
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Nazis occupy Bulgaria
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Belzec becomes newest extermination camp to use gas chambers
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Nazis invade Yugoslavia and Greece
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Nazis invade Russia
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Majdanek becomes newest concentration camp
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Nazis use new gas at Auschwitz
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Although already in force, Nazis step up killings especially in Auschwitz
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Japanese attack U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor
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U.S. and Great Britain declare war on Japan
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Chelmno camp in Poland becomes operational
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Hitler declares war on the United States and the United States declares war on Germany
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Mass deportations to Auschwitz and Belzek
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Sobibor becomes newest extermination camp in Poland to use gas chambers
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The New York Times reports that over 1,000,000 Jews have been killed by the Nazis
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Treblinka becomes newest extermination camp in Poland
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Belzek is closed and plowed under after 600,000 Jews killed
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After world learns of attrocities, Nazis dig up and burn all corpses to remove all traces
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Germans surrender to Russian troops at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies
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American Jews hold a mass rally at Madison Square Garden to pressure U.S. government to help the European Jews
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Exterminations cease at Treblinka, after an estimated 870,000 deaths
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The Danish underground helps transport 7,220 Danish Jews to safety
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300 prisoners escape into the woods, after which Sobibor closes. Claiming 250,000 lives, Sobibor is erased and trees are planted
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President Roosevelt issues a statement condemning German and Japanese ongoing "crimes against humanity"
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A Red Cross delegation visits Theresienstadt after the Nazis have carefully prepared the camp and the Jewish inmates, resulting in a favorable report
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Allied landings in Normandy on the coast of N. France
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Russian troops liberate the first concentration camp, Majdanek where over 360,000 had been murdered
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Anne Frank and family are arrested by Gestapo in Amsterdam, then sent to Auschwitz. Anne and her sister Margot are later sent to Bergen-Belsen where Anne dies of typhus on March 15, 1945
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Last use of the gas chambers at Auschwitz
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Russians liberate Budapest, freeing over 80,000 Jews
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Russian troops liberate Auschwitz. By this time, an estimated 2,000,000 persons, including 1,500,000 Jews, have been murdered there
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Allied troops liberate Buchenwald
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Berlin is reached by Russian troops
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U.S. Army liberates Dachau
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Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker
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Unconditional German surrender signed by General Alfred Jodl at Reims. WWII is over!