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Nazis issue a Decree defining a non Aryan as "anyone descended from non-Aryan, especially Jewish, parents or grandparents. One parent or grandparent classifies the descendant as non-Aryan...especially if one parent or grandparent was of the Jewish faith."
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Nazis pass law allowing for forced sterilization of those found by a Hereditary Health Court to have genetic defects.
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Nazis pass a Law against Habitual and Dangerous Criminals, which allows beggars, the homeless, alcoholics and the unemployed to be sent to concentration camps.
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German President von Hindenburg dies. Hitler becomes Führer.
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Germany introduces military conscription
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Nuremberg Race Laws against Jews decreed.
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Germany defines a "Jew": anyone with three Jewish grandparents; someone with two Jewish grandparents who identifies as a Jew
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The Kristallnacht
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Germany invades Poland, Starting WW 2 in Europe
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The Soviet Union occupies Poland from the east
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway
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Germany attacks Western Europe (France and the Low Countries)
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Germany invades Yugoslavia
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Germany invades the Soviet Union
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Nazi Germany declares war on 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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Germans begin the mass deportation of over 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center.
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Warsaw Ghetto uprising
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Rescue of Jews in Denmark
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D-Day Allied forces invade France
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Battle of Bulge
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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 50,000 prisoners from the Stutthof camp system in northern 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.
