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Hitler is announced Chancellor of Germany
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The Reichstag Building was burned by the Nazis to create a crisis-like atmosphere.
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Hindenburg dies and Hitler becomes Führer
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The Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews were passed.
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Jews over the age of 15 are ordered to apply for identity cards from the police. They must show them whenever they are ordered to.
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The massive killings of Jews begin to take place at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The bodies are buried in mass graves nearby.
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In New York, American Jews hold a mass rally at Madison Square Garden to try and pressure the U.S. government into helping the European Jews.
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Russian troops liberate the first concentration camp at Majdanek. Over 360,000 Jews had been murdered there.
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Nazis begin to conduct the death marches of the concentration camps as the Allied Troops advance.
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Hitler commits suicide in his bunker in Berlin after the Allied forces reached Berlin.
