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The regime established the first concentration camps, imprisoning its political opponents, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses.
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All Jewish pupils were expelled from German schools. One billion Marks fine levied against German Jews for the destruction of property during Kristallnacht
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Germany invaded Poland. Nazi Germany and its allies conquered much of Europe. German officials confiscated Jewish property, in many places required Jews to wear identifying armbands,
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Gas vans also appeared on the eastern front in late fall 1941. the German army carried out mass shootings as it advanced into Soviet lands.
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troops uncovered the full extent of crimes committed during the Holocaust.
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By the end of the war in spring in1945, the Germans and their Axis partners were pushed back on both fronts,
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The Germans and their collaborators had murdered six million European Jews as part of a systematic plan of genocide the Holocaust.
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The years the continent struggled was to recover from the death or injury of tens of millions of soldiers and civilians, as well as catastrophic damage to property and industry
