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The Holocaust
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Hitler becomes Chancellor
the German president appointed Hitler Chancellor. -
Nuremberg race laws
Two years after the Nazis came to power, the German government decreed the Nuremberg Race Laws in 1935. These laws codified a supposedly biological definition of Jewishness. -
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World War II
Nazi Germany began World War II by attacking Poland. Over the next two years, Germany invaded and occupied much of Europe, including western parts of the Soviet Union. -
Germanys territorial expansion
Nazi Germany’s territorial expansion began in 1938–1939. Germany annexed neighboring Austria and the Sudetenland during this time and occupied the Czech lands.