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Adolf Hittler is appointed Chancellor of Germany
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about 6 million Jews have been killed
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The Reichstag building burns down and Hitler gains the emergency power
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Nazis open Dachau concentration camp near Munich
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Nazi stage boycott of Jewish shops and businesses
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Burning of Books in Berlin ans throughout Germany
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the Night of Long Knives
Hitler, Goering and Himmler conduct a purge of the SA (storm trooper, that included members who believed in socialism) leadership. On July 20,1934 the SS (Schutzstaffel) is made an independent organisation from the SA -
German President Hindenburg dies and HITLER BECOMES FUEHRER
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Nuremberg Race Laws against Jewish decreed
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Hitler announces union with Austria
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Kristallnacht
A massive, coordinated attack on Jews throughout Germany -
Nazi troops seize Czechoslovakia
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Nazis invade Poland
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Great Britain and France declare war on Germany
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Warsaw surrenders
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Nazi euthanasia
Hitler ordered widespread "mercy killing" of the sick and disabled. -
Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland
one of the biggest concentration camps , 2 million people died there -
Nazi invade Denmark
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Nazi invade France, Belgium, Holland and Luxemberg
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Nazi invade Romania
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Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia become Nazi Allies
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Jews ordered to wear yellow stars
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Beginning of general deportation of Jews
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Germans surrender to Russian troops at Stalingrad
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Nazi declare Berlon to be Judenfrei (cleansed of Jews)
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In response to political pressure to help Jews under Nazi control, President Roosevelt creates the War Refugee Board.
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Russian troops liberate the first concentration camp
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As Allied troops advance, the Nazis conduct death marches of concentration camp inmates away from outlying areas.
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Russian troops liberate Auschwitz
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Berlin is reached by Russian troops
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Hitler commits suicide
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Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps
