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Hitler became Chancellor of Germany by following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party.
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Leader, or 'Fuhrer'.
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Hitler announced the Nuremberg Laws. Germany’s parliament (the Reichstag), then made up entirely of Nazi representatives, passed the laws.
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Nazis terrorize Jews throughout Germany and Austria. 30,000 Jews are detained. Kristallnact, or the "Night of the Broken Glass".
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Jews are forced into ghettos and are put into concentration camps.
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Their plan was to kill all European Jews in order to create the Aryan race.
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80-85% of all the Jewish people who would die in the Holocaust already have been murdered.
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Hitler takes power in Hungary, he orders the deportation of 12,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz, where they would be slaughtered.
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Holocaust is over and the camps are emptied. Many survivors are placed in displaced persons facilities. World War II ends in Europe.