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The Nazi Party and Adolf Hitler come into power. The party began to dehumanize Jewish people and set discriminatory laws. Hitler was then appointed chancellor. -
During this night, Adolf Hitler had many Nazi leaders killed or imprisoned due to them becoming too powerful for his peace of mind. Hundreds of political opponents were also killed as well during this night. -
The Nuremberg laws were a law that was put into place to "Protect German Blood and Honor". They wanted to put their beliefs into law. They believed the Aryan race was the supreme, "master race" and anyone who wasn't was weak. They truly believed Jews were their race inferior to all other ones. -
Nazi Germany began to annex multiple countries like Austria, the territory of Sudetenland, and the Czech lands. As time went on Hitler had control of most of Europe. -
German officials and soldiers forced Jewish people into very packed and diseased places called ghettos. Soldiers would ensure that people couldn't get in or out of the ghettos. Factories and sweatshops were created to exploit the "free" workforce. -
It was the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" and was the genocide of millions of Jewish people and non-pure Germans. When allies saved people from theses places they were in disbelief at the horrors they saw there. -
Germany started WW II by invading Poland and in only a few years Germany had occupied most of Europe, and western parts of Soviet Russia. At the same time, they allied with Italy, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. -
After the invasion of the Soviet Union, multiple, massive killing squads began to carry out mass shootings of local Jews. -
The Holocaust comes to an end when the major Allied Powers defeated Nazi Germany in World War II.