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President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany.
President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany. -
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Holocaust
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Nazis take power, Dachau opens
Dachau concentration camp was the first of the Nazi concentration camps opened in Germany, intended to hold political prisoners. -
Nuremburg Race Laws
The Nuremberg Laws were antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany. They were introduced on 15 September 1935 by the Reichstag at a special meeting convened at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party. -
Kristallnacht
A massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich on the night of November 9, 1938, into the next day, has come to be known as Kristallnacht or The Night of Broken Glass. -
Germany invades Poland, starting World War 2 in Europe
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The Soviet Union occupies Poland from the east
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Germans establish a ghetto in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland.
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Battle of Britain begins.
The Battle of Britain is the name given to the Second World War defence of the United Kingdom by the Royal Air Force against an onslaught by the German Air Force which began at the end of June 1940. -
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the United States declares war the next day
The attack on Pearl Harbor, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor, the Hawaii Operation or Operation AI by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, and Operation Z during planning, was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the United States Territory of Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II. -
The first killing operations begin at Chelmno in occupied Poland.
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Nazi Germany declares war on the United States
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Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center
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Germans begin mass deportations of nearly 100,000 Jews from the occupied Netherlands to the east
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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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Warsaw ghetto uprising begins
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Battle of Kursk
The Battle of Kursk was a Second World War engagement between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front near Kursk in the Soviet Union during July and August 1943. -
Rescue of Jews in Denmark
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Germans forces occupy Hungary.
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Germans begin the mass deportation of about 440,000 Jews from Hungary
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D-Day: Allied forces invade Normandy, France
On June 6, 1944, the Allies invade Western Europe in the largest amphibious attack in history. During World War II, the Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. -
Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland
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Death march of nearly 50,000 prisoners from the Stutthof camp system in northern Poland
A death march is a forced march of prisoners of war or other captives or deportees with the intent to kill, brutalize, weaken and/or demoralize as many of the captives as possible along the way. It is distinguished in this way from simple prisoner transport via foot march. Death marches usually feature harsh physical labor and abuse, neglect of prisoner injury and illness, deliberate starvation and dehydration, humiliation and torture, and execution of those unable to keep up th -
Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz camp complex
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American forces liberate the Dachau concentration camp
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide
Adolf Hitler killed himself by gunshot on 30 April 1945 in his Führerbunker in Berlin. His wife Eva committed suicide with him by taking cyanide.That afternoon, in accordance with Hitler's prior instructions, their remains were carried up the stairs through the bunker's emergency exit, doused in petrol, and set alight in the Reich Chancellery garden outside the bunker. Records in the Soviet archives show that their burnt remains were recovered and interred in successi. -
Germany surrenders to the western Allies
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Germany surrenders to the Soviets
