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Adolf Hitler became German chancellor on January 30, 1933, the Nazi state quickly became enforced by Hitler.
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To expand the Reich’s borders, the German government held an election where the local population voted to favor living under German rule.
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men convicted under Paragraph 175 are sent to concentration camps, intending to stop the homosexual “contagion.” Between 1933 and 1945, an estimated 100,000 men will be arrested as homosexuals, of whom some 50,000 are officially sentenced.
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The Holocaust began in the broader times of world war II. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Over the next year, Nazi Germany and its allies conquered much of Europe.
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The first prisoners arrive at the new concentration camp of Auschwitz I, established near the Polish city of Oswiecim.
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Germany turned against its ally, the Soviet Union. Mobile killing units followed the German army and carried out mass shootings as it advanced into Soviet lands.
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Along with German army units and an Einsatzgruppe unit, this force murdered more than 160,000 Jews over the next two months.
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Chelmno is the first location outside of the Soviet Union where Jews are slaughtered en masse as part of the “Final Solution.” Chelmno is built to serve as the killing center for Jews in the Lodz ghetto (which is situated just 47 miles east of the camp) as well as those from the entire Warthegau region of occupied Poland. In all, some 170,000 people are murdered at Chelmno.
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Most of the Jews brought to Sobibor are murdered immediately upon arrival. During its operation, an estimated 250,000 Jews will be killed there.
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To their astonishment, young Jews offer armed resistance and drive the German forces out of the ghetto.
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Even after the liberation of Europe and the end of World War II, tens of thousands of Jewish survivors will remain in concentration camps and in hiding.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt condemns the Nazis and their accomplices for their despicable crimes during the war, but also warns the Hungarians to refrain from any atrocities against the Jews.
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Taking close to 60,000 prisoners on a forced march. Those who cannot keep up are killed and close to 15,000 die during the marches from Auschwitz
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General Alfred Jodl, representing Germany, signs the letter of surrender in the war room of the Allied headquarters in Reims, France. Two days later, the general surrender will be formally ratified in Berlin, this time with the Soviets, as Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signs an identical document for General Georgi Zhukov.
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However, the 1935 revision of Paragraph 175–the law criminalizing homosexuality–remains in effect.
Until 1969, some members of the LGBTQ community will be forced to serve out their terms of imprisonment, regardless of the time spent in concentration camps. -
leven subsequent trials will be held in Nuremberg between 1946 and 1949.
The Nuremberg Trials are the first trials in history meant to administer punishment by means of proper jurisprudence, including adequate defense for the accused, and not by executions or the summary verdicts of lightning trials. The court will declare that the following of superior orders is not justification for the perpetration of a crime.