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The Dachau Concentration Camp is established by the SS. Dachau Camp was the first concentration camp established by the Nazis.
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After Hitler was appointed as Chancellor of Germany, he passed a law that discriminated against Jews and forced them out of public schools in Germany.
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Nuremberg Laws are created. They discriminated against Jews and segregated Jews from the Germans.
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Buchenwald Concentration Camp is opened in the old borders of Nazi Germany. This concentration camp would be the most active camps throughout WWII
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"Der Ewige Jude" opens up in the library of the German Museum in Munich
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New German law requires that Jews that have a "non-Jewish" name must adopt another name; "Israel" for men, and "Sara" for women.
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The German Government declares that all German passports held by Jews are invalid. They must give up old passports, and those passports would be valid again only when the letter "J" is stamped.
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Kristallnacht (Night of Shattered Glass) was a national pogrom where Germans burned synagogues, and destroyed Jewish homes and businesses.
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This decree prevented Jews from opening businesses and selling things and providing economic services.
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The St. Louis leaves from Hamburg with 900 passengers, most of them Jews escaping from the Germans. After being turned away from America, they went back to Europe. The Jews were then accepted as refugees in the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.
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Auschwitz is created in modern-day Poland. Auschwitz would become of the most infamous of death camps that the Nazis established.
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Warsaw Ghetto, holding the Jews of Warsaw is closed off from the rest of Warsaw, preventing its Jews from leaving. Conditions in the ghetto were horrible, and surviving was a daily challenge.
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Krakow, in modern day Southern Poland, is established, and Jews are forced to move in.
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Jews in the Germany who were over 6 years old were required to wear the Star of David to distinguish them from non-Jews.
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Chelmno begins to gas Jews. Chelmno would be the first center to kill its prisoners by gas.
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Mass deportations of Jews to Treblinka and nearby death camps begin. Treblinka II is established a month later, and was a secret extermination camp.
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As the Soviet invaded from the east and the Allies from the West, Germany relocates its Jews further into Germany for extermination. Jews that were forced on these death marches often died on the way or were shot by SS guards, who were ordered to kill those unable to walk. As the Allies invaded Germany, numerous camps were also liberated.
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All remaining German forces surrender unconditionally. Hitler also committed suicide a week previous, and the Soviet capture of Berlin occurred 5 days previous. This ends the war and the Holocaust in Europe.
