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President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany. Blames the Jews for Germany's loss in WWII
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Opens in Dachau, a small village located near Munich . The first commandant of Dachau is Theodor Eicke. At first interned only known political opponents of the Nazis: Communists, Social Democrats, and others who had been condemned in a court of law. Later imprisoned Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, Gypsies, and other groups.
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The elderly German President von Hindenburg dies and Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party come into power
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First anti-Jewish racial laws enacted; Jews no longer considered German citizens; Jews could not marry Aryans; nor could they fly the German flag
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The German Gestapo is placed above the law
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Nazi troops enter Austria, which has a population of 200,000 Jews, mainly living in Vienna
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Following Anschluss(union) which joined Germany and Austria, Jews in Austria were persecuted and victimised
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Mandatory registration of all property held by Jews inside the Reich
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Mussolini orders new antisemitic laws
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Hitler had been eyeing the northwestern area of Czechoslovakia, called the Sudetenland, which had three million German-speaking citizens
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Kristallnacht - A massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich.
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Nazis fine Jews one billion marks for damages related to Kristallnacht
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Hitler's ideas spread to near countries, promoting the hatred of Jews
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Germany invades Poland and WWII officially begins
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Germany begins deportation of Austrian and Czech Jews to Poland
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Jews in Poland forced to sew a yellow star to all their clothes to be easily identified
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The Lodz Ghetto in occupied Poland is sealed off from the outside world with 230,000 Jews locked inside
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A new concentration camp is opened in Poland
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The Warsaw Ghetto, containing over 400,000 Jews, is sealed off.
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Hundreds of Jews butchered in this pogrom
Jewish hate has risen immensly in the past years since Hitler came into power in Germany -
In occupied Poland near Lublin, Majdanek concentration camp becomes operational
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The Jews of Wuerzburg were stripped of any valuables and all personal papers except identification cards and then deported
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Mass-gassing of Jews began at Auschwitz-Birkenau
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Could not use any public transportation like trains and such
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In occupied Poland, Sobibor extermination camp becomes operational. The camp is fitted with three gas chambers using carbon monoxide piped in from engines
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Treblinka extermination camp opened in occupied Poland, east of Warsaw. The camp is fitted with two buildings containing 10 gas chambers, each holding 200 persons. Carbon monoxide gas is piped in from engines placed outside the chamber. Bodies are burned in open pits.
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On Passover, over 2000 Waffen SS soldiers attacked with tanks, artillery and flame throwers at the Warsaw Ghetto. The Jews fought back for 28 days, but eventually the soldiers conquered
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Massive escape from Sobibor as Jews and Soviet POWs break out, with 300 making it safely into nearby woods. Of those 300, fifty will survive. Exterminations then cease at Sobibor, after over 250,000 deaths. All traces of the death camp are then removed and trees are planted.
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Nazis carry this out in occupied Poland, killing 42,000 Jews.
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Nazis begin deporting Hungarian Jews; by June 27, 380,000 sent to Auschwitz.
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Allied invasion at Normandy.
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Beginning of death march of approximately 40,000 Jews from Budapest to Austria.
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Evacuation of Auschwitz; beginning of death march
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Hitler commits suicide along with newlywed wife Eva Braun
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Japan surrenders; end of World War II
