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Hitler began the rearmament of Germany, secretly and in violation of the Versailles Treaty
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First official concentration camp opened at Dachau
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Germany concentration camps (Konzentrationslager in Germany, or KZ) held some 27,000 people in "protective custody."
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Hitler was appointed German chancellor and his Nazi government soon came to control every aspect of German life.
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Jews in Germany numbered around 525,000 or only 1 percent of the total German population.
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Hitler took power and made himself supreme leader
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Japan invaded China
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German synagogues were burned and windows in Jewish shops were smashed
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Nazi invaded Russia breaking a non-aggression pact.
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Germany invaded Poland, and Great Britain and France declared war on Germany
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France and Britain declared war in Germany
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Soviet troops invaded Poland from the East.
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Western Desert Campaign started
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Germany and the Soviet Union had divided control over the nation, according to a secret protocol appended to the Nonaggression Pact
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German army expended Hitler's empire in Europe, Conquering Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France.
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America started fighting in the war
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The Germans began mass transports from the ghettos in Poland to concentration camps.
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Battle of Stalingrad which was one of the bloodiest battles in war
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Jews were deported to the camps from all over Europe
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This is when the heaviest deportations took place, when more than 300,000 people were deported from the Warsaw ghetto alone.
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The first mass gassing began at the camp of Belzec, near Lublin
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A large population of Hungary's Jewish population was deported to Auschwitz, and as many as 12,000 Jews were killed every day
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Allied defeat of both Nazi Germany and Japan
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The German Government made payments to individual Jews and to the Jewish people as a way of acknowledging the Germans people's responsibility for the crimes committed in their name