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Hitler is born in a small Austrian village.
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Hitler was released from prison and reformed and reorganised the Nazi Party. The party chairman was Anton Drexlor.
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Over 9 million Jews lived in Europe, working and raising families in the harsh reality of the worldwide economic depression.
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The regime established the first concentration camps, imprisoning its political opponents, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and others classified as “dangerous.”
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Nazis open Dachau concentration camp near Munich, to be followed by Buchenwald near Weimar in central Germany, Sachsenhausen near Berlin in northern Germany, and Ravensbrück for women.
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Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
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Adolph Hitler declares himself president and chancellor of the Third Reich after the death of Paul von Hindenburg.
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The first Polish ghetto is established.
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Paris is occupied by the Nazis.
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Anti-Jewish riots in Romania, hundreds of Jews butchered.
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Construction begins on Birkenau, an addition to the Auschwitz camp. Birkenau includes a killing center which begins operations in early 1942.
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Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.
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Nazi "extermination" camps located in occupied Poland at Auschwitz, Birkenau, Treblinka, Sobibor, Belzec, and Majdanek-Lublin begins mass murder of Jews in gas chambers.
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Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps
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Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker.
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Japan surrenders; end of World War II
