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Concentration camps held prisoners and forced them to work until they perish from exhaustion. -
The Nuremberg Laws took citizenship away from Jewish Germans.
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The anti-Jewish violence that erupted throughout Germany and Austria. More than 90 Jews were dead, hundreds were badly injured, and thousands more were terrorized
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On May 27, 1939, the SS St. Louis entered the harbor in Havana, Cuba, with 930 Jewish refugees on board. They were denied permission to come on shore so the ship tried the US. They were denied again. The shipped then docked in France, Holland, Belguim, and Great Britain. Within two years, France, Holland, and Belgium fell under Nazi domination. Many of the refugees brought to these countries perished in the Nazis’ “final solution.”
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A non-aggression pact, signed by Germany and the Soviet Union.
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When Japan attack Pearl Harbor, the US finally got involved into World War II
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In late 1941, the Nazis built extermination facilities at the Chelmno and Auschwitz camps in Poland. These camps were used to quickly kill elders, the sic, young children, mothers, and the disabled in gas chambers. -
