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World War II and Nazi German

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    World War II Nazi-Germany

  • Hitler Comes to power

  • Nazis burn Reichstag building

  • First Concentration camp opens.

  • Gestapo Created

  • Germany Burning of the Books

  • Nazi party is the only legal political party in Germany

  • The Night of Long Knives

  • German president dies, Hitler becomes president

  • German Gestapo is placed above the law.

  • Nazi troops enter Austria

  • Signing of German-Soviet nonaggression pact.

  • WWII Begins

    Germany invadeds Poland
  • France and Great Britain Declare War on Germany

  • Russian invades East Poland.

  • Russia Attacks Finland

  • First Deportation of Jews from Poland

  • Italy declares war on France

  • German Jews ordered into forced labor

  • Germany invades U.S.S.R.

  • Japan bombs pearl harbor

  • Deportation starts

  • Jews ordered to wear yellow star

  • Reduction of food for Jews in Germany

  • Concentration camps destroyed

    Exterminations at Belzec cease after an estimated 600,000 Jews have been murdered. The camp is then dismantled, plowed over and planted.
  • Gas chamber/crematory opens in Auschwitz

  • WWII Ends