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Hitler became president of Germany
95 percent of registered voters in Germany went to the polls and gave Hitler 38 million votes of approval (90 percent of the vote). Thus Adolf Hitler could claim he was Führer of the German nation by direct will of the people. -
The Treaty of Versailles is signed
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Stock Market on Wall Street crashes.
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Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.
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The first concentration camp is opened
The first concentration camp is opened in Oranienburg outside Berlin. Nazis began a systematic roundup of political opponents known as the anti-Nazis. There were so many arrests that conventional prisons quickly became overwhelmed so concentration camps were built to punish those who defied the Nazi government. -
Hitler blames the Treaty of Versailles for Germanys economic downfall
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Jewish people lose rights
The Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935 deprived German Jews of their rights of citizenship, giving them the status of "subjects" in Hitler's Reich. -
Hitler holds a secret meeting with his top military advisors, ordering them to make plans for the conquest of Eastern Europe and Russia.
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Austria and Germany unite, nazi troops enter Vienna in Austria where jews live
This is at the time when Edith escapes Vienna -
Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany.
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Assassination attempt on Hitler fails.
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Auschwitz concentration camp is opened
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France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany.
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Hitler declares war on the United States.
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Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 Allied nations.
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United States liberates Dachau concentration camp
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Hitler commits suicide in his Berlin bunker.
