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The Nazis organised a massive torchlight parade in Berlin to celebrate the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor of Germany.
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hitler planned to use the death of the german president as an opportunity to gain power.
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The nazis made new laws that made it so the jewish could not get married or have sexual relations
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On the night of November 9, 1938 all the police and the government planned a massive, coordinated attack on Jews. They targeted Synagogues, homes and businesses. The fire brigade and people just stood by and watched it happen.
The next day 25,000 jews were sent off to concentration camps they often brutalized and some were beaten to death. -
Nazies forced the jews to relocate to The Krakow Ghetto. The jews were forced to make the walls and the polish were forced to seal the doors and windows. They were forced to carry identification papers and used for manual labour.
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Order from Hermann Göring to Reinhard Heydrich to send money and materials to prepare for the final solution (eradicate of all the Jews) in all the territories of Europe under German occupation
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The German Jew were ordered to wear yellow stars to identify them
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The camp is fitted with permanent gas chambers using carbon monoxide piped in from engines placed outside the chamber, but will later substitute Zyklon-B.
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German banknotes are sent to the Reichs Bank. Foreign currency, gold, jewels and other valuables are sent to SS Headquarters of the Economic Administration. Watches, clocks and pens are distributed to troops at the front. Clothing is distributed to German families. By February 1943, over 800 boxcars of confiscated goods will have left Auschwitz.
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Auschwitz-Birkenau records its highest-ever daily number of persons gassed and burned at just over 9,000. Six huge pits are used to burn bodies, as the number exceeds the capacity of the crematories.