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The Schutzstaffel or the SS was the Nazi party's paramilitary group.
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Hitler is appointed Chancellor by President Paul von Hindenburg after being elected to Germany's parliment.
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For Hitler to claim emergency powers he need an 2/3rds majority in the parliment. He got the 2/3rds by arresting his opponents(comunists) and saying he would unite Germany.
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The boycott of Jewish business to force them out of business.
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This law forced the killing of anyone with hereditary diseases. Including mental and physical diseases.
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Gave the courts the ablity to order the indefinte inprisonment of anyone the deemed a donger to society.
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The Zigeunerlager was a death camp for people of Roma and Senti ethnic groups.
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Restricted things Jews/Roma/Afro-Germans could do. Form of ethinic clensing. Citizenship striped from them.
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Reichszentrale was a German government agency that fought against Abortian and Homosexuality.
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Germany remilitarizes the Rhineland. The Rhineland is a stretch of Germany that borders France.
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The Einsatzgruppen was the personal killing group of the Nazi's. Massacred many Jews and other ethinic groups.
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Germans ransacked Jewish Business. Jews then forced to pay fines for the mess.
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The MS St. Louis was a German ocean liner that was carrying 900 Jews. It tried to drop them off in many countrys but they were rejected in everyone. Eventually had to return to German occupied France.
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Germany invades Poland and starts the Second World War.
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The second largest Ghetto in Europe(Poland). Housed almost 68,000 People
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The Madagascar Plan was a plan to relocate the European Jewish population to Madagascar.
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The death camp Auschwitz opens. Over 1 million people die here.
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This order said that any Soviet leaders captured during the invasion should be excuted.
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All german Jews had to wear a yellow star that signified they were Jewish.
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The Einsatzgruppen killed over 34,000 Jews in two days.
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A meeting between top German officials were they talked about the "final solution" to the Jew problem.
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The ghettos were cleared out. The people inside were either deported to concentration camps or killed.
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Dr. Mengele was a sadistic doctor who experimented with camp prisoners for medical advances.
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Prisoners were gassed for the last time at Auschwitz.
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Himmler orders Auschwitz to be destroyed to eliminate evidence of mass murder.
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The Soviet army liberated the death camp Auschwitz and its 7,000 occupants.
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Hitler commits suicide with his wife in his bunker as troops closed in on Berlin.
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A public trial of 24 major German leaders who faced charges including crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
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Adolf Eichmann was captured by the Mossad(Isreal) in Argentina. He was found guilty of war crimes and was excuted.
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Mengele dies after suffering a stroke in the water, and drowing in Brazil.