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Hitler takes power in Germany
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Members of the Storm Troopers (SA), with boycott signs, block the entrance to a Jewish-owned shop. -
German Jews lost their citizenship according to the definitions posed in these new regulations -
German officials first created ghetto's for Jews to live in unsanitary conditions.
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On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany began World War II (1939–1945) by attacking Poland.
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German units began to carry out mass shootings of local Jews. -
On April 19, 1943, the Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. Jewish insurgents inside the ghetto resisted these efforts. This was the largest uprising by Jews during World War and the first significant urban revolt against German occupation in Europe.
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The Holocaust ended in May 1945 when the major Allied Powers (Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union) defeated Nazi Germany in World War II.
