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The first concentration camp, Dachau, opened outside of Munich, Germany. These were used primarily for political prisoners. -
The holocaust era started in January 1933 when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power in Germany. -
Germans create ghettos in Poland in Piotrków Trybunalski -
Nazi Germany began World War II by attacking Poland. -
Nazi leaders implemented the mass murder of Europe’s Jews. -
Chelmno was the first killing center for the mass murder of Jews it was established in December 1941. -
The concentration camp in Dachau was finally liberated in April 1945. -
The holocaust ended when the Allied Powers defeated Nazi Germany in World War II. By the end of the war 6 million Jew and other victims were dead