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A proud young father pastes two photos into his extensive family journals.
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Roosevelt wins the most votes in the American presidential elections.
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The Nazi Party assumes control of the German state
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Hitler orders the purge of the top leadership of the SA, the Nazi Party paramilitary formation.
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The German government bans all organizations of the Jehovah's Witness Christian denomination.
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The Nazi dictatorship camouflages its racist, militaristic character while hosting the Summer Olympics
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Buchenwald becomes one of the largest concentration camps established within the old German borders of 1937
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On March 11–13, 1938, German troops invade Austria and incorporate Austria into the German Reich in what is known as the Anschluss
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Germany invades Poland, initiating World War II in Europe