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Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party come to power when Hitler is appointed chancellor of Germany. -
Dachau concentration camp opened in 1933 for political prisoners and was owned and operated by The Nazis, later it expanded to house all of Nazi Germany's undesirables(mostly jews) -
In September 1935 the Nuremberg laws were passed which made jews and other ethnic minorities legally different classes from ethnic Germans. -
From the Night of November 9 1938 to the morning of November 10 1938 Mobs of Nazi soldiers and citizens burned, vandalized, and destroyed Jewish owned businesses throughout Nazi Germany in retaliation for the Assassination of a German official by a Jewish man, and out of hate for Jews. -
Adolf Hitler gives a speech to the German people that said that war would mean the annihilation of jews in Europe, and started the shift from Ethnic injustice to Genocide -
Nazi Germany Creates first Ghetto in Piotrków -
At the Wannsee conference in Berlin high ranking SS Official Reinhard Heydrich reveals the plan to begin the extermination of Jews -
The extermination of jews begins in the Belzec extermination camp and by the end of the year 600000 jews had been killed