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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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Boycott of Jewish-owned shops and businesses in Germany -
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Germany introduces military conscription. -
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Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss (Union) -
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The St. Louis sails from Hamburg, Germany. -
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Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe -
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Germany attacks western Europe (France and the Low Countries). -
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Battle of Britain begins. -
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Germany invades the Soviet Union -
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Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno. Plus more killings -
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the United States declares war -
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Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center -
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Soviet troops counterattack at Stalingrad, trapping the German Sixth Army in the city. -
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Warsaw ghetto uprising begins. -
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Germans begin the mass deportation of about 440,000 Jews from Hungary. -
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D-Day: Allied forces invade Normandy, France -
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Anglo-American forces break out of Normandy. -
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Allied forces land in southern France -
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Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland. -
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US troops cross the Rhine River at Remagen. -
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The Soviets launch their final offensive, encircling Berlin. -
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American forces liberate the Dachau 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.