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World War Two & Spiegelman Timeline
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Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.
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Boycotting of Jewish shops and businesses in Germany begins.
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Nuremberg Race Laws are created.
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Vladek and Anja get married.
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Austria joins the Anschluss Union.
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Vladek and Anja see a Nazi Flag hanging in the center of a town while riding on the train.
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Kristallnacht.
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Vladek is drafted into the Polish Army.
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Germany invades Poland.
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Vladek is fighting in the trenches against the germans. He is taken prisoner during the fighting
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Vladek’s factory is seized by the government.
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Vladek is reunited with his family after sneaking across the Poland-Germany border.
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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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Battle of Britain begins.
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Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece.
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Germany invades the Soviet Union.
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor causing the United States to declare war.
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The first killing operations start at Chelmno in Poland. Germany declares war on the U.S.
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Vladek’s parents are deported and killed.
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Germans begin the deportation of over 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Auschwitz.
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Tosha poisons herself and the children including Richieu, to avoid the gas chambers.
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Warsaw ghetto uprisings start.
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Nazis kill everyone in Vladek's ghetto.
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Jews are rescued in Denmark.
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Vladek arrives at Auschwitz.
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D-Day. The Allied forces invade Normandy, France.
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Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz camp.
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Hitler commits suicide.
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Germany surrenders to Allies
