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President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany
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SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich
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German troops march unoppsed into the Rhineland
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Germany invades Poland, Starting World War 2 in Europe
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The soviet Union occupies Poland from the east
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Germans established a ghetto in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway
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Germany attacks western Europe
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Battle of Britain begins
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Germany invades Yugoslavis and Greece
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Germany invades the Soviet Union
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Mobile killing units shoort nearly 3,000 Jews at the seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno
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Einsatzgruppen round up 13,000 Jews from the Minsk ghetto and kill them in nearby Tuchinki
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the United States declares war the next day
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Nazi Germany declares war on the United States
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Germans begin the mass deportion of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center
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Battle of Kursk
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Germans begin the mass deportation of about 440,000 Jews from Hungry
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D-Day allied forces invade Normandy, France
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Battle of the Bulge
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Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz camp complex
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American forces liberate the Dachsu concentration camp
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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Germany surrenders to the western Allies
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Germany surrenders to the soviets