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President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany
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SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich
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Law for the Reestablishment of the Professional Civil Service
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Law for the Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases
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Nuremberg Race Laws
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Munich Agreement
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Kristallnacht was a nationwide pogrom in Germany
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Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Agreement
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Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway
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Battle of Britain begins
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Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece
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Germany invades the Soviet Union
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Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno
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Nazi Germany declares war on the United States
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Germans begin the deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Drancy, outside Paris, to the east (primarily to Auschwitz)
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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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D-Day: Allied forces invade Normandy, France
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Battle of the Bulge
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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
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American forces liberate the Dachau concentration camp
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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Germany surrenders to the western Allies
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Germany surrenders to the Soviets
