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Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000.
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SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich.
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Nuremberg Race Laws.
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German troops march unopposed into the Rhineland.
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Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss (Union).
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Munich Agreement. Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement, by which Czechoslovakia must surrender its border regions and defenses (the so-called Sudeten region) to Nazi Germany.
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Kristallnacht (nationwide pogrom in Germany).
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Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe.