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Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany
Hitler becomes the leader of Germany -
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Beginning to End of The Holocaust
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SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich
The first concentration camp is opened -
Boycott of Jewish-owned shops and businesses in Germany.
Hitler boycott's Jewish-owned shops and businesses throughout all of Germany -
Nuremberg Race Laws.
Hitler takes away the natural rights of all Jews in Germany. Depriving them of basic human rights, and bans intermarriages. -
Munich Agreement.
Agreement for peace -
Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Agreement.
Nazi's and Soviet's agree against war -
Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe.
Germany starts ww2 by invading Poland -
Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno.
Death of over 3,000 innocent Jews. -
Einsatzgruppen shoot about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar, outside Kiev.
Innocent Jews shot to death by mobile shooting vehicles. -
Einsatzgruppen round up 13,000 Jews from the Minsk ghetto and kill them in nearby Tuchinki (Tuchinka).
Jews from the Minsk ghetto are murdered -
Einsatzgruppen shoot 10,000 Jews from the Riga ghetto in the Rumbula Forest.
10,000 more Jews murdered. -
Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center.
Beginning of mass deportation of Jews to killing center. -
Germans begin the deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Drancy, outside Paris, to the east (primarily to Auschwitz).
German's begin deporting Jews to Auschwitz. -
Germans begin mass deportations of about 100,000 Jews from the Netherlands to Auschwitz.
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Germans complete the mass deportation of about 265,000 Jews from Warsaw to Treblinka.
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Warsaw ghetto uprising begins.
The war against Nazi Germany begins. -
Rescue of Jews in Denmark
The people of Denmark rescue the Jews from Denmark. -
Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland.
Almost 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp taken on the Death march -
Death March of almost 50,000 prisoners from the Stutthof camp system in northern Poland
Death march of almost 50,000 -
Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz camp complex.
Auschwitz is liberated by Soviet troops. -
American forces liberate the Dachau concentration camp.
Dachau concentration camp is liberated by American forces. -
Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
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Germany surrenders to the western Allies.
Two days before the end of Nazi Germany. -
Germany surrenders to the Soviets.
The end of Nazi Germany!