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President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany
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SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich
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Boycott Of Jewish-Owned Shops And Businesses In Germany
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Law for the Reestablishment of the Professional Civil Service
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Law for the Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases
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Germany introduces military conscription
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Nuremberg Race Laws
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German troops march unopposed into the Rhineland
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German troops march unopposed into the Rhineland
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Summer Olympics begin in Berlin
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Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss
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Munich Agreement
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Kristallnacht
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The St. Louis sails from Hamburg, Germany
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Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Agreement
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Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe
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Germans establish a ghetto in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland
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Battle of Britain begins
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Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the U.S. declares war the next day
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Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center
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Battle of Kursk
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Germans begin the mass deportation of about 440,000 Jews from Hungary
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Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland
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Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland
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Adolf Hitler Commits Suicide
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Germany Surrenders To The Soviets