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Schutzstaffel was established (originally Hitler's personal guards, but later became the elite guard of the Nazi Reich and Hitler’s executive force prepared to carry out all security-related duties without regard for legal restraint).
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Adolf Hitler got appointed as chancellor in Germany.
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Adolf Hitler claims "emergency" powers to punish the people who set off the fire in Reichstag.
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Jewish businesses were targeted and boycotted by the Nazis.
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Germany passed the Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases.
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Germany enacted the Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals.
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Germany passed the Nuremberg Laws.
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Adolf Hitler violates the Treaty of Versailles after sending German troops into Rhineland (a demilitarized zone).
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Reichszentrale is created in Germany so the Nazis can fight off homosexuality and abortion.
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Jews were required to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothing in public at all times.
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Kristallnacht, aka "The Night of Broken Glass", was when Germans killed hundreds of Jews and attacked thousands of Jewish institutions (some Jews were even sent to concentration camps).
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S.S. St. Louis (the ship was filled with Jews) sailed from Hamburg, Germany to Havana, Cuba to escape increasing persecution under the Third Reich in Germany.
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Germany invades Poland; start of WWII.
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Auschwitz opens.
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Germans open the Lodz Ghetto in Lodz, Poland.
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The Nazi government set in motion a plan to exile all European Jews to Madagascar.
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Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units of Nazi Germany) conducted mass killings of Jews, Communists, and the disabled in Nazi-occupied areas in the East.
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Adolf Hitler issues The Commissar Order, an order which states all Soviet commissars were to be shot if found (and identified).
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Babi Yar massacre occurred; Nazis killed over 34,000 Jews in Kiev.
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The Wannsee Conference took place — German officials gathered in Berlin to discuss the "final solution" in regards to the "Jewish question" (genocide against the Jewish population in Europe).
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Last gassing of inmates done at Auschwitz.
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Dr. Josef Mengele arrives at Auschwitz.
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Himmler orders to liquidate all ghettos and transfer remaining Jewish inhabitants to concentration camps.
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Himmler orders to demolish the gas chambers and crematoria in Auschwitz.
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Liberation of Auschwitz.
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
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The International Military Tribunal for Germany formally opened in Nuremberg, Germany, where the Allied nations decided the punishment Germany would get for the war crimes they've committed.
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Adolf Eichmann was captured in Argentina by the Israeli secret service agency, Mossad (they had tracked him down and later took him to Israel).
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Dr. Josef Mengele is found dead from a stroke off the the Brazilian coast.