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The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.
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In 1933, the regime established the first concentration camps, imprisoning its political opponents, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and others classified as “dangerous.”
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The Nazi party assumes control of the German State.
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The Nazi state (also referred to as the Third Reich) quickly became a regime in which citizens had no guaranteed basic rights.
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Members of the Nazi party and its affiliated organisations organize a nationwide boycott of Jewish-owned businesses in Germany
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Adolf Hitler becomes president of Germany.
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The Nazi Dictatorship camouflages its racist, militaristic character while hosting the Summer Olympics
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The largest concentration camp established within the old German borders
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Hitler declares that the outbreak of war would mean the end of European Jewry.
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Germany invaded Poland
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SS authorities establish the largest concentration camp complex of the Nazi regime.
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The destruction of ship carrying 1,800 Jewish refugees
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Gas vans appeared on the eastern front in late fall
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Responding in part to public protests, Hitler orders the cessation of centrally coordinated murder of disabled.
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All Jew over six years of age in the Reich, Alsace, Bohemia-Moravia and the German-annexed territory of western Poland are ordered to wear an identifying badge
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German authorities begin deporting Jews from central Europe to ghettos in occupied eastern territory.
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Japan launches a surprise attack on the United States Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor Hawaii
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Chelmo was first stationary facility where poison ga was used for mass murder.
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German poster announcing death penalty for aiding Jews who fled the Warsaw ghetto.
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Between 1941 and 1944, Nazi German authorities deported millions of Jews from Germany, from occupied territories, and from the countries of many of its Axis allies to ghettos and to killing centers, often called extermination camps, where they were murdered in specially developed gassing facilities.
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German military officers attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler in his East Prussian headquarter at Rastenburg.
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By the end of the war in spring 1945, as the Germans and their Axis partners were pushed back on both fronts, Allied troops uncovered the full extent of crimes committed during the Holocaust.
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The Germans and their collaborators killed nearly two out of every three European Jews as part of the "Final Solution,"
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide in his bunker in Berlin.
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The day the German armed forces surrendered unconditionally to the Allies.
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For the western Allies, World War II officially ended in Europe on the next day, May 8 (V-E Day), while Soviet forces announced their “Victory Day”