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The first concentration camp was opened Dachau, Germany.
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Homeless people, alcoholics and those who were unemployed were sent to concentration camps before Jewish people.
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Jewish people were prohibited from receiving health insurance.
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Laws that were put in place to strip the rights from Jewish people.
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Jews in Austria were persecuted along with Jews in Germany.
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A Jewish synagogue in Munich, Germany.
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A night in which approx. 100 Jewish people were murdered and 20,000 were arrested. Many synagogues were burned down, and many Jewish stores were vandalized.
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Jewish people living in both Austria and Czechoslovakia were deported to Poland.
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In Poland, Jewish people were forced to wear yellow stars as a form of identification.
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The newest concentration camp, Auschwitz, opens.
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Many killing squads known as Einsatzgruppen began killing Jewish people in Russia. Approx. 33,000 were murdered in almost two days.
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The "Final Solution" was implemented
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In Chelmno, the first death camp was opened.
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The start of mass-gassing Jewish people at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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Many of the existing death camps were closed as Russian troops began advancing and any evidence of the camps was destroyed.
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After an order that was issued to "clear out" the Warsaw Ghetto, a group or about 750 young people began to start a small revolution against the German troops. This lasted for about a month until those who were still alive were either shot or taken to death camps.
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The last time gas chambers in Auschwitz would be used.
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The survivors of the concentration camps were forced to engage in death marches.
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Germany surrendered, thus ending the war in Europe.
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The Nazi leaders who survived were put on trial in Nuremberg.