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Hitler swiftly consolidated power, anointing himself Führer (supreme leader) in 1934.
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After signing alliances with Italy and Japan against the Soviet Union, Hitler sent troops to occupy Austria in 1938 and the following year annexed Czechoslovakia
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Hitler invades Poland. This drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, and World War II had begun.
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Among the estimated 45-60 million people killed were 6 million Jews murdered in Nazi concentration camps as part of Hitler’s diabolical “Final Solution,” now known as the Holocaust.
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German planes bombed Britain extensively throughout the summer of 1940