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Hitler gained power by supporting anti-semitism, anti-capitalism, and anti-communism. he changed the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich.
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Dachau opens as the first concentration camp in all of Germany in 1933.
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Vladek and Anja's son Richieu is born in Sosnowiec, Poland, 1937
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Gramany invaded Poland and the attack came without any warning or declaration of war.
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Vladek had a dream in which his dead Grandfather told him that he would be released on Parshas Truma. On the following Parshas Truma, his dream was correct and he was released.
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Hitler's forces attacked France, winning over Luxembourg, Netherlands and Belgium in the process.
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Japanese pilots bomb Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on December 7th 1941.
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Vladek and Anja are sent to Auschwitz and separated into different camps.
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160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy.
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Vladek sees Anja in camp at Birkenau
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The allies liberate Paris. After four years under German authority, Paris is now free.
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Anja moved from Birkenau to Auschwitz
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died on Aril 12th, 1945. Right after he died on the same day Harry Truman became president.
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Hitler and his wife commit suside
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The day on which the Allies announced the surrender of German forces in Europe.
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The atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima was dropped by a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay took off from the island of Tinian and headed north by northwest toward Japan.
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The atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagaski.The bomb was dropped by parachute from an American B29 Bomber.
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VJ Day started on August 15th 1945.the day on which the Allies announced the surrender of Japanese forces during World War II.
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Vladek and Anja leave Poland for Sweden
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Anja gives birth to her and Vladeks second son, Art Speigelman in stockholm Sweeden
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The Spiegelman family moves to the U.S. and settles in Rego Park, New York.
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Anja commits suicide
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Vladek dies at an age of 75 yrs. and 10 months because of congestive heart failure. All I can say is that he lived a life that was one of a kind.
