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Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Von Hindenburg.
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The first official Nazi concentration camp opens in Dachau, a small village located near Munich.
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Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses
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Laws for Reestablishment of the Civil Service barred Jews from holding civil service, university, and state positions.
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The Gestapo is established by Herman Goering, minister of Prussia
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Public burnings of books written by Jews, political dissidents, and others not approved by the state.
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Law excluding East European Jewish immagrants of German citizenship.
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Hitler proclaims himself Leader and Reich Chancellor. Armed forces must now swear allegiance to him.
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Jews barred from serving in the German armed forces
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Germany defines a "Jew": anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew.
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Sachsenhausen concentration camp opens.
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Buchenwald concentration camp opens.
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Request by Swiss authorities, Germans mark all Jewish passports with a large letter "J" to restrict Jews from immigrating to Switzerland.
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All Jewish pupils expelled from German schools
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Beginning of World War II: Germany invades Poland. In the following weeks, 16.336 civilians are murdered by the Nazies in 714 locations. At least 5,000 victims were Jews.
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France surrenders.
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German authorities begin rounding up Polish Jews for transfer to Warsaw Ghetto. 10,000 Jews died by starvation in the ghetto between January and June 1941.
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United States declares war on Japan and Germany.
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Extermination begins in Belzec; by end of 1942, 600,000 Jews murdered.
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Armed revolt in Sobibor extermination camp
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D-Day: Allied invasion at Normandy.
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Beginning of death march for inmates of Stutthof
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Hitler commits suicide, liberation of Ravensbruck.
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August 6: Bombing of Hiroshima
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Bombing of Nagasaki
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Japan surrenders; end of World War II