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Adolf Hitler Becomes Dictator
"Adolf Hitler, byname Der Führer (German: “The Leader”) (born April 20, 1889, Braunau am Inn, Austria—died April 30, 1945, Berlin, Germany), leader of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party (from 1920/21) and chancellor (Kanzler) and Führer of Germany (1933–45). He was chancellor from January 30, 1933, and, after President Paul von Hindenburg’s death, assumed the twin titles of Führer and chancellor (August 2, 1934)."
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Boycott Encouragement
"After the Nazis came to power in Germany on January 30, 1933, the Nazi leadership decided to stage an economic boycott against the Jews of Germany."
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Kristallnacht
"On November 9 to November 10, 1938, in an incident known as "Kristallnacht", Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews." - History.com -
"Euthanasia Program"
"In the fall of 1939 the German government established, under the Reich Chancellery, the Euthanasie Programme under the direction of Philip Bouhler and Dr. Karl Brandt. "
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WWII & Jewish Ghettos
"The Germans established at least 1,000 ghettos in German-occupied and annexed Poland and the Soviet Union alone. German occupation authorities established the first ghetto in Poland in Piotrków Trybunalski in October 1939."
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Mobile Killing Squads
"Special action squads, or Einsatzgruppen, made up of Nazi (SS) units and police, moved with speed on the heels of the advancing German army. Their job was to kill any Jews they could find in the occupied Soviet territory. Some residents of the occupied regions, mostly Ukrainians, Latvians, and Lithuanians, aided these German mobile killing squads by serving as auxiliary police."- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum -
Ghettos Outside Poland
"Theresienstadt, Czech Terezín, town in northern Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic), founded in 1780 and used from 1941 to 1945 by Nazi Germany as a walled ghetto, or concentration camp, and as a transit camp for western Jews en route to Auschwitz and other extermination camps."
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Wannsee Conference
"On January 20, 1942, 15 high-ranking Nazi Party and German government officials gathered at a villa in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee to discuss and coordinate the implementation of what they called the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question."" - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
"In the months following the Wannsee Conference, the Nazi regime continued to carry out their plans for the "Final Solution." Jews were "deported" -- transported by trains or trucks to six camps..." - USHMM -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Ends
"The ghetto fighters were able to hold out for nearly a month, but on May 16, 1943, the revolt ended....Of the more than 56,000 Jews captured, about 7,000 were shot, and the remainder were deported to camps." -USHMM -
Deportations from Hungary Begin
"Two-thirds of Hungarian Jewry was destroyed between 1941 and 1945."- DEGOB -
Liberation of Northern Europe Begins
"The Allied liberation of northern Europe began on September 4, 1944. It started with the British conquest of the port of Antwerp, but the Germans still controlled the Scheldt estuary near Antwerp. "- Anne Frank Guide -
Unconditional German Surrender
"Germany has signed an unconditional surrender bringing to an end six years of war in Europe, according to reports from France."- BBC -
State of Israel Creation
"The State of Israel was proclaimed on 14 May 1948, the culmination of nearly 2,000 years of hopes by Jewish people that they would one day return to the land from which the Romans expelled them. The Holocaust of European Jewry in the Second World War strengthened their determination." -BBC News -
Holocaust Remembrance Day Created
"The internationally recognized date comes from the Hebrew calendar and corresponds to the 27th day of Nisan on that calendar. It marks the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. In Hebrew, Holocaust Remembrance Day is called Yom Hashoah."- USHMM
