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Hitler Comes into Power
January 30, 1933: President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany. -
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Holocaust
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Summer Olympics begin in Berlin.
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Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Agreement.
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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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Einsatzgruppen shoot about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar, outside Kiev.
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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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Battle of Kursk.
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Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz camp complex.
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Nazis Surrender