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Dauchau, the first concentration camp, was opened in central Germany. Arbeit Macht Frei was the phrase written on the gate of Dachau. It means "Work Will Set You Free."
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The Nuremburg Race Laws defined a non-Aryan as "anyone descended from non-Aryan, espescially Jewish, parents or graanparent. One parent or grandparent classifies the descendant as non-Aryan espescially if one parent or grandparent was of Jewish faith."
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Kristallnacht, otherwise known as "The Night of Broken Glass," was a night when Nazis destroyed synagogues, Jewish homes, and Jewish owned businesses.
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Germans establishe a ghetto in Poland when Jews were rounded up and forced to live.
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Germans began deporting Jews from ghettos to Chelmno where they were exterminated.
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Nearly 60,000 prosiners from Auschwitz to the west. The prosoners were forced to travel in severely cold conditions and were brutally treated by the guards.
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Soviet forces liberated Auschwitz, the largest killing center and concentration camp, in January 1945. The Soviets discovered personal belongings of the victims and sweverat thousand pounds of human hair in the warehouses of the camp.
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Hitler committed suicide in his bunker by shooting himself with a pistol.
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Germany surrenders to the Soviets and the war in Eurpoe is ended.
