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Hindenburg makes Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany
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Period: to
Holocaust
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SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich
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The first killing operations begin at Chelmno in occupied Poland.
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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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January 25, 1945: Death march of nearly 50,000 prisoners from the Stutthof camp system in northern Poland.
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Germany surrenders to the Soviets.
