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Adolf HItler is Appointed Challencor of Germany by President Von Hindenburg
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First Concentration Camp is Set up in Dauchau a Small Village in Munich in the Bavarian Area of Germany
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HItler Appointed as the First Grand Fuhrer of Germany
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the Decreasing rights of Jews as they we no lionger considered apart of Germany
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Anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew.
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Germans march into the Rhineland, previously demilitarized by the Versailles Treaty.
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Sachsenhausen concentration camp opens.
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July 15: Buchenwald concentration camp opens
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Evian Conference held in Evian, France on the problem of Jewish refugees
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August 3: Italy enacts sweeping antisemitic laws
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Hitler Demand the Extermination of Jews
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Beginning of World War II: Germany invades Poland. In the following weeks, 16.336 civilians are murdered by the Nazies in 714 localities. At least 5,000 victims were Jews.
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Germany begins deportation of Austrian and Czech Jews to Poland. ( Czech and Austria wer occupied by Germany)
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November 23: Jews in German-occupied Poland forced to wear an arm band or yellow star.
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May 20: Concentration camp established at Auschwitz.
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September 27: Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis.
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October: Establishment of Auschwitz II (Birkenau) for the extermination of Jews; Gypsies, Poles, Russians, and others were also murdered at the camp.
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November 16: Warsaw Ghetto sealed: ultimately contained 500,000 people.
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January 21-26: Anti-Jewish riots in Romania, hundreds of Jews butchered.
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July - August: Dozens thousands of Russian and Jews are murdered by the Einzatzgruppen (extermination squads) in the occupied territories
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December 8: Chelmno (Kulmhof) extermination camp begins operations: 340,000 Jews, 20,000 Poles and Czechs murdered by April 1943.
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March 17: Extermination begins in Belzec; by end of 1942 600,000 Jews murdered.
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Winter: Deportation of Jews from Germany, Greece and Norway to killing centers; Jewish partisan movement organized in forests near Lublin.
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April 19: Warsaw Ghetto revolt begins as Germans attempt to liquidate 70,000 inhabitants; Jewish underground fights Nazis until early June
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November 8: Beginning of death march of approximately 40,000 Jews from Budapest to Austria.
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May 15: Nazis begin deporting Hungarian Jews; by June 27, 380,000 sent to Auschwitz. Hungary being recently invaded by Germany
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January 17: Evacuation of Auschwitz; beginning of death march
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January 25: Beginning of death march for inmates of Stutthof
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April 6-10: Death march of inmates of Buchenwald
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April 8: Liberation of Buchenwald.
April 15: Liberation of Bergen-Belsen.
April 22: Liberation of Sachsenhausen.
April 23: Liberation of Flossenburg.
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April 30: Hitler commits suicide, liberation of Ravensbruck.
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May 8: V-E Day: Germany surrenders; end of Third Reich