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Beginning of Holocaust era
The holocaust era began in january of 1933 and although the Nazi didn't immediately start killing jews, they did use the government to exclude them from society. -
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Jewish Internment
Nazi Germany and its allies had established 44,000 (or more) ghettos, labor camps, concentration camps, and other incarceration sites for forced labor, detention for state enemies, and a mass murder. -
Nuremberg Race Laws
The Nazi party promoted a form of racial antisemitism and central to the Nazi party race based worldview. These laws revoked German Jews' citizenship and put in new regulations that only "full" Germans were entitled to lawful protection. -
Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)
Shattered glass littered the streets because of vandalism and destruction of Jewish businesses, homes, and synagogues. This started because of a Jewish child shooting a German diplomat in France. -
Killing Centers
The Nazi regime built specially designed killing centers in Poland that was German occupied. These killing centers were called extermination camps and their purpose was to efficiently murder Jews on a mass scale. -
World War II began
Germany began World War II during the territorial expansion by attacking Poland. Over the course of two years Germany invaded and occupied majority of Europe including parts of the western Soviet Union. -
Germany Invades Soviet Union
The Nazi German regime perpetrated mass shootings that had never been seen before. After Germany invaded the Soviet Union, German units carried out mass shootings to local Jews and their communities. -
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Final Solution
This was the last stage of the holocaust and ranged from 3-4 years. Although Jews were killed before this era, a majority was murdered during this period on a unprecedented scale. -
Decline of Axis Alliance
germany, Italy, and Japan recognized German and Italian dominance over continental Europe and Japanese domination over East Asian. Five other european countries joined the axis alliance and participated in persecution and murder of Jews during the Holocaust (Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, and Croatia). -
End of holocaust era
The allied powers defeated Nazi Germany in World War 2.