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Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany
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In Dachau, Germany, the first concentration camp was opened.
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Germans spread the word not to purchase anything from Jewish shops.
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All drunks, as well as homeless and unemployed Jews were sent to the concentration camp in Dachau, Germany.
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Jews are prohibited from having health insurance.
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The Nuremberg Laws were introduced. These laws were designed to take away Jewish rights of citizenship and included orders that:
-Jews are no longer allowed to be German citizens.
-Jews cannot marry non-Jews.
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Jews in Austria were prosecuted.
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The Jewish synagogue in Munich is destroyed.
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A night of extreme violence where Approximately 100 Jews were murdered. 20,000 German and Austrian Jews were arrested and sent to camps,
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All Jewish kids in school were expelled.
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Jews in Poland were forced to sew a yellow star onto their clothes so that they could be identified as jews.
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The historically famous concentration camp in Auschwitz is opened.
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The Warsaw Ghetto is sealed off with about 400,000 Jews inside.
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In Auschuwitz-Birkenau, the 1st mass-gassing occurs.
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All evidence of the inhumane cruel killing is destroyed.
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Many remaining camps were closed and evidence of their existence destroyed. Those who had survived the camps so far were taken on forced 'Death Marches', in which many more Jews died of hunger, disease and little rest.
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Faced with defeat, Hitler decides to take his own life.
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The war in Europe ends, when Germany surrenders.
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Surviving Nazi leaders were put on trial at Nuremberg.
