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Hitler becomes Chancellor
Elected Chancellor of Germany
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Boycott of Jewish Businesses
After the Nazis came to power in Germany on January 30, 1933, the Nazi leadership decided to stage an economic boycott against the Jews of Germany. -
Dachau Opened
31,951 killed
The first of the Nazi concentration camps opened in Germany, intended to hold political prisoners. -
Nuremberg Laws
Nazis announced new laws secondary citizens identification criteria "protection of German blood" state- sponsored discrimination the official grounds for the persecution of Jews. -
Kristallnacht/The Night of Broken Glass
massive, coordinated attacks on Jews In response to the murder of a german diplomat by a Jewish teenager Synagogues, businesses, cemeteries -
Germany invades Poland
The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. German forces attack Poland across all frontiers and its planes bomb Polish cities, including the capital, Warsaw Defensive War in Poland -
Auschwitz Concentration Camp Established
Largest concentration camp a network of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. -
“Final Solution” begins
the Nazi plan to exterminate the Jewish people resulted in the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, the destruction of Jewish communities in continental Europe. -
Liberation of Auschwitz
Most of its population was evacuated and sent on a death march.