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Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power in Germany.
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in 1939. Prewar and wartime territorial expansion eventually brought millions more Jewish people under German control.
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German officials first created ghettos
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Nazi Germany began World War II by attacking Poland.
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world war II began with the German invasion of Poland
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Though many Jews were killed before the "Final Solution"
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German units began to carry out mass shootings of local Jews. At first, these units targeted Jewish men of military age
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They had started massacring entire Jewish communities. These massacres were often conducted in broad daylight and in full view and earshot of local residents.
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a result of annexations, invasions, occupations, and alliances Nazi Germany controlled most of Europe and parts of North Africa.
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Germans and their allies and collaborators murdered ghetto residents masse and dissolved ghetto administrative structures. They called this process “liquidation.” It was part of the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question.”
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when the major Allied Powers (Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union) defeated Nazi Germany in World War II. As Allied forces moved across Europe in a series of offensives, they overran concentration camps.