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President Hindenburg appoints Hitler as chancellor of Germany.
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The first official Nazi concentration camp opens in Dachau. Dachau is a small village located near Munich.
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Books written by Jews, political dissidents, and others who were not approved of the state were burned publicly. These book burnings were a campaign conducted by the German Student Union to ceremonially burn the books in Germany and Austria.
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Hitler proclaims himself Führer und Reichskanzler. Armed forces must now swear alligence to him.
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Germany surrenders. The U.S. and allied forces stop the nazis and the remaining concentration camps are liberated.
