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Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
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Dachau, the first concentration camp, is opened
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Enabling Act is passed
Gives Hitler absolute power -
First of the Nuremberg Laws is published
Takes rights away from Jews and forbids marriage between Jews and “Aryans” -
representatives from 32 countries met in Evian, France
to discuss the growing refugee crisis in Europe -
Kristallnacht
Nazi-instigated rampage against Jewish shops in Germany and Austria -
Regulations Against Jews
made it illegal for Jews to carry firearms or other weapons -
German invasion of Poland
Starts WWII -
first instance of mass murder by gas under Hitler’s rule
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The Nazis begin a program of gassing the mentally disabled in Germany
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Nazi pseudo-documentary The Eternal Jew
attempted to justify the extermination of Jews from Europe -
Auschwitz concentration camp is opened in Poland
a prison for Poles and an outstation for colonization of the East -
Germans and their allies invade the Soviet Union
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First gassings with Zyklon-B at Auschwitz
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33,000 Soviet Jews are massacred
buried in a mass grave at Babi Yar, outside Kiev, Ukraine -
Wannsee Conference discusses the “Final Solution”
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Operation Harvest Festival
18,000-40,000 Jews at Majdanek concentration camp are massacred -
liberated Majdanek
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Last gassings at Auschwitz
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Soviet troops entered Birkenau
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Auschwitz is liberated by Russians
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Bergen-Belson was the first camp to be liberated by Western Allied officers
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Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker
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last concentration camp is liberated by the U.S.
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Allies accept Germany’s unconditional surrender