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Birth of Anne Frank in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany.
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Law for the Prevention of genetically Diseased offspring ( sterilization law) eneacted.
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Gestapo roundup of homosexuals begins.
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Nuremberg laws are announced.
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First arrests of German Gypies.
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Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion is established in Berlin.
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Preventive crime fighting decree allows widespread arrest of gypsies and other "asocials."
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On November 9, 1938, Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels announced a government-sanctioned reprisal against the Jews. Synagogues were ravaged and then burned. Jewish shop windows were broken. Jews were beaten, raped, arrested, and murdered. Throughout Germany and Austria, the pogrom known as Kristallnacht ("Night of Broken Glass") rampaged.
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All Gypsies required to register with police.
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Heinrich Himmler issues cicular on " Combating the Gypsy
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Germany invades Poland. Killings and deportations of Polsih citizens begin.
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Hitler authorizes T4 euthanasia program.
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German soldiers march into soviet union.
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Mass executions of jews,Gypies, and communist officials begin.
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Hitler issues stop order for T4 eauthansia centers.
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Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. United States enter the war.
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Hitler assumes personal command of all German armed forces.
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Franks hide in secret annnex to stay away from the nazis.
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" D-Day"; Allies invade continental Europe at Normandy, France.
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Franks secret annex is found. Nazis send them to concentration camps.
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Annie has a sickness called typus. Annie dies at bergen-belson concentration camp.
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Germany surrenders; War in Europe ends
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Hitler knew he was going to lose the war so he takes the cowards way out.
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On August 6, 1945, during World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world’s first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people. Japan’s Emperor Hirohito announced his country’s unconditional surrender in World W
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After America used the atomic bomb twice on cities in Japan, Japan finally surrenders.
