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  January 30, 1933: President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany.
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  On March 20, 1933, SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich.
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  On April 1, 1933, Boycott of Jewish-owned shops and businesses in Germany.
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  On September 15, 1935, the Nuremberg Race Laws were created.
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  Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews.
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  The Nazis invade over seven countries in one year.
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  34,000 Jews are killed in Babi Yar outside of Kiev.
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  Germans begin mass deportations of nearly 100,000 Jews from the occupied Netherlands to the east (primarily to Auschwitz).
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  Allied forces invade Normandy, France.
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  Between April 30, 1945 to May 9, 1945, Adolf Hitler commits suicide, Germany surrenders to the western Allies, and Germany surrenders to the Soviets.