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Adolf Hitler becomes the Chancellor of Germany.
Adolf Hitler becomes the Chancellor of Germany. -
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The Nazi's begin building concentration camps. The first camp is called Dachau.
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Germany incorporates Austria into the Union.
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Germany invades Poland and World War 2 begins.
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The Germans create a ghetto in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland.
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
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Germany attacks western Europe.
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Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece.
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Germany invades the Soviet Union.
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Einsatzgruppen shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort.
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Einsatzgruppen shoot about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar.
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the U.S. declares war the next day
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Nazi Germany declares war on the United States.
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Germans begin the mass deportation of over 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center
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Night:The Nazi's take over Sighet.
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Night: Elie's family is forced out of there home and must live in a ghetto. From there they are taken from the train station.
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Night: Elie arrives at Auschwitz and gets seperated from his mother and sisters but stays with his father.
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Night: Elie and his father are sent to Buna.
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Night: Elie watches people get hung and thinks God won't help him live.
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Night: Elie and his father are evacuated from Auschwitz.
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Night: Elie and his father went on a death march to Gleiwitz.
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Night: Elie travels to Buchenwald and get nothing to eat besides snow.
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Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland
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Night: Elie's father dies in the crematory.
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Night: Elie is rescued by American troops.
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
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Germany surrenders to the western Allies and to the Soviets.
