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Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany.
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Nazi's had opened the first concentration camp, Dachau in Munich. This lead to the opening of Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, and Ravensbruick.
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On this day, the Embedding Act is passed by Parliament. This allowed Hitler to gain dictatorial powers.
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Many students from German Universities burn books that have "UnGerman-like ideas".
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Adolf Hitler disliked homosexuals, Jews, and Jehovah's Witnesses and others classified as 'dangerous'.
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These laws state that German Jews are no longer citizens but rather subjects. They were deprived of their rights as human beings.
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War is declared on Germany by Great Britain and France.
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Mercy killing begins to occur. Newborns, children, sick, and disabled were usually the victims. Five other Euthanasia centers were built shortly after. Nazi's simply believed that they were doing a favor considering that a Jew's life was simply "life unworthy of life".
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In lidice, 172 men and boys over the age of 16 were shot while the women and children were sent to concentration camps. The village was destroyed and was removed off of all German maps.
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Many women and children were sent to their execution. There were 1000+ people killed this day. If the Nazi's saw that any women were still left alive, they would be shot again.
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Russian soldiers free the Jewish concentration camp Auschwitz. A funeral service was held later by the SS before the liberation. The famous motto "Arbeit Macht Frei" which means "Work makes one free" was bared onto the main gate of the camp.
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This is when the Holocaust technically ended. Estimated 1/3 of all Jewish people alive at the time were murdered in the Holocaust.
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In May Hitler had Murdered more than 6 million jews as a systematic plan of genocide.
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Hitler committed suicide in the Berlin Bunker.
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