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Enabling Act
The Enabling Act was an amendment to the Weimar Constitution that gave the German Cabinet the power to enact laws without the Reichstag. Hitler blamed the fire of the Reichstag on the jews and used this as an excuse to push this law into effect. -
Gestapo Established
was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe. -
Night of Long Knives
Also known as Hummingbird Operation when the Nazi regime carried out a series of political murders because 1923 when Hitler tried to overtake the govenment these powerful political figures were in power. So Hitler wanted them out of the way. -
Kristallnacaht
Kristallnacht means Night of Broken Glass The germans broke glass of the Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues had their windows broken. 91 Jews were killed and 30,000 were taken to concentration camps -
warsaw ghetto uprisng
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Dachau
First concentration camp oamp opens -
Hitler death
Adolf Hitler shot himself while biting down on a cyanide capsule with his wife Eva Braun in a bunker. -
Goebbel death
Joesph Goebbel's and his wife Magda committed suicide after killing 5 daughters and one son. -
Nuremberg Trials
Best known as "the greatest trial in history" by Norman Birkett, one of the British judges who presided over it. -
Nuremberg Trials
Held between 20 November 1945 and 1 October 1946,
Series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II,the Tribunal was given the task of trying 23 of the most important political and military leaders of the Third Reich,
