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Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
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SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich.
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Abandonment of Jewish owned shops and businesses in Germany.
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Law for the Reestablishment of the Professional Civil Service.
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Law for the Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases.
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Germany introduces military conscription
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Nuremberg Race laws
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German troops march unopposed into the Rhineland
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Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss (Union)
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Nazi-Soviet Non aggression Agreement
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Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe
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Germans establish a ghetto in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland
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Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort
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Einsatzgruppen shoot 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar, outside Kiev
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Einsatzgruppen round up 13,000 Jews from the Minsk ghetto and kill them in nearby Tuchinki
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Einsatzgruppen shoot 10,000 Jews from the Riga ghetto in the Rumbula Forest
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Soviet winter counteroffensive
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The first killing operations begin at Chelmno in occupied Poland
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Germans begin the mass deportation of over 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing camp
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Germans begin the deportation of over 65,000 Jews from Drancy, to the east
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Germans begin mass deportations of nearly 100,000 Jews from the occupied Netherlands to the east
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Germans begin the mass deportation of over 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center
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Germans complete the mass deportation of about 265,000 Jews from Warsaw to Treblinka
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Warsaw ghetto uprising begins
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Rescue of Jews in Denmark
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Germany forces occupy Hungary
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Germans begin the mass deportation of about 440,000 Jews from Hungary
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Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland
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Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz camp complex
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide
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Germany surrenders to the western Allies
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Germany surrenders to the Soviets
