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Adolf Hitler is appionted Chancellor of Germany.
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The Nazis burn down the Reichstag Building which is part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, beginning with the era of Charlemagne in German.
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The Dachau concentration camp was the first concentration camp by the Nazis in Germany. The camp was located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory near the medieval town of Dachau, Germany.
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The German government passes the “Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases. The new law sterilization of people with physical and mental disabilities or mental illness.
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First anti-Jewish racial laws enacted. Germany defines a "Jew": anyone with three Jewish grandparents.
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Jawish docotors were banned from practicing medicine in
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Jews are banned from receiving university degrees.
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Mandatory registration of all property held by Jews inside the Reich.
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Evian Conference held in Evian, France on the problem of Jewish refugees
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Jews in German-occupied Poland forced to wear an arm band or yellow star.
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Beginning of World War II: Germany invades Poland. In the following weeks, 16.336 civilians are murdered by the Nazies in 714 localities. At least 5,000 victims were Jews.
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Battle of Britain begins.
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Russian and Jews are murdered in the occupied territories.
5,200 Jews murdered in Byalistok
2,000 Jews murdered in Minsk
5,000 Jews murdered in Vilna
5,000 Jews murdered in Brest-Litovsk
5,000 Jews murdered in Tarnopol
3,500 Jews murdered in Zloczow
11,000 Jews murdered in Pinsk
14,000 Jews murdered in Kamenets Podolsk
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Deportation of Jews from Germany, Greece and Norway to killing centers; Jewish partisan movement organized in forests near Lublin.
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Nazis begin deporting Hungarian Jews; by June 27, 380,000 sent to Auschwitz.
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Beginning of death march of approximately 40,000 Jews from Budapest to Austria.
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Bombing of Hiroshima
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Bombing of Nagasaki
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Hitler commits suicide, liberation of Ravensbruck.
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Japan surrenders; end of World War II.
