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Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
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Opening of Dachau concentration camp
First concentration camp in Nazi Germany. -
Beginning of boycotting of Jewish businesses
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Issuing of Nuremberg Laws
Laws that insitutionalized discrimination against Jewish people and other groups. -
Kristallnacht: Night of Broken Glass
Nazi leader supposedly killed by Jewish teenager, German public responds by breaking glass and destroying synagogues, businesses and other Jewish property. -
Germany invades Poland
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Establishment of Auschwitz
Most destructive concentration camp during Nazi Germany. -
Final Solution
Nazi plan to eliminate all Jewish people. -
Liberation of Auschwitz
Remaining prisoners in Auschwitz freed.