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Period: to
The Holocaust
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Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
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Dachau concentration camp is opened outside of Munich
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Boycott of Jewish owned businesses and shops in Germany
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Nuremberg Race Laws
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Germany invades Poland, beginning WWII in Europe
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Germans create a ghetto in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland
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Nazis shoot about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar, outside Kiev
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Nazis round up and kill 13,000 Jews from the Minsk ghetto
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Nazis shoot 10,000 Jews from Riga ghetto
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65,000 Jews taken from Lodz to Chelmno Killing Center
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Germans deport 65,000 Jews from Drancy to Auschwitz
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Germans deport 100,000 Jews from Netherlands to Auschwitz
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Germans deport 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center
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Warsaw ghetto uprising begins
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Death march of 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp in Poland
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Death March of 50,000 prisoners from the Stutthof camp system in Poland
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Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz camp complex
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American forces liberate the Dachau concentration camp
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Germany surrenders to the western Allies
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Germany surrenders to the Soviets