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Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany.
The people of Germany saw hope in Hitler so they wanted him to lead them. -
Dachau concentration camp opens.
"Dachau was established initially to incarcerate political prisoners, primarily German Communists, Social Democrats, trade unionists, and other political opponents of the Nazi regime." - https://newspapers.ushmm.org/events/dachau-opens -
Gestapo established.
Secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe. -
Nuremberg Laws.
"Anti-Jewish racial laws enacted; Jews no longer considered German citizens; Jews could not marry Aryans; nor could they fly the German flag" - https://www.museumoftolerance.com/education/teacher-resources/holocaust-resources/timeline-of-the-holocaust.html -
Assassination in Paris of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan
"After he had learned of the deportation of his parents from Germany to the Polish frontier, Grynszpan shot Ernst vom Rath, the third secretary of the German embassy in Paris.[3] He shot the 29-year-old vom Rath five times, mortally wounding him with bullets to the spleen, stomach and pancreas." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_vom_Rath#:~:text=Assassination%20and%20motives,-Herschel%20Grynszpan%20in&text=After%20he%20had%20learned%20of,the%20spleen%2C%20stomach%20and%20pancreas. -
Kristallnacht
"anti-Jewish pogrom in Germany, Austria, and the Sudetenland; 200 synagogues destroyed; 7,500 Jewish shops looted; 30,000 male Jews sent to concentration camps (Dachau, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen)" - https://www.museumoftolerance.com/education/teacher-resources/holocaust-resources/timeline-of-the-holocaust.html -
Concentration camp established at Auschwitz
Auschwitz was the largest concentration camp. -
Hitler commits suicide
"On April 30, 1945, holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head." - https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/adolf-hitler-commits-suicide