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President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler chancellor of Germany
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SS opens the Dachau concentration camps outside of the Munich
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Nuremberg Race laws
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German troops march unopposed into the Rhineland
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Nazi- soviet non aggression Agreement
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Germany invades Poland, starting WWII in Europe
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway
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Germany invades the Soviet Union
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Mobile killing units shoot nearly 3000 Jews at the seventh fort
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Mobile killing units shoot about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar
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Mobile killing units round up 13,000 Jews from the Minsk ghetto and kill them in nearby Tuchinki
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Mobile killing units shoot 10,000 Jews from the Riga ghetto in the Rumbula forest
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Nazi Germany declares war on the united states
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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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Warsaw ghetto uprising begins
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Rescue of Jews in Denmark
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Germans begin the mass deportation of 440,000 Jews from Hungary
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D-day: Allied forces invade Normandy, France
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Warsaw polish uprising begins
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Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland
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Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz camp complex
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The Soviets launch their final offensive, encircling Berlin
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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Germany surrenders to the western Allies
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Germany surrenders to the soviets