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The first concentration camps in Germany were established soon after Hitler's appointment as chancellor
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Boycott of Jewish-owned shops and businesses in Germany.
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It cost more money, damaged more property, killed more people, and caused more far-reaching changes than any other war in history.
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Sept 1, 1939 Start of WW2
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1.5 Million Children died during the Holocaust
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Germany invades Poland
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Hitler designed the Nazi flag. Red stood for the social idea of Nazism, white for nationalism, and the black swastika for the struggle of the Aryan man
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The Soviet Union occupies Poland from the east.
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Auschwitz was opened
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Battle of Britain begins
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Germany invades the Soviet Union
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Einsatzgruppen shoot about 34,000 Jews at Babi Yar, outside Kiev.
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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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Nazi Germany declares war on the United States.
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Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center.
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Wannsee Conference held near Berlin, Germany.
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Germany launches a new offensive towards the city of Stalingrad.
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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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Soviet troops counterattack at Stalingrad, trapping the German Sixth Army in the city.
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Battle of Kursk.
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Rescue of Jews in Denmark.
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D-Day: Allied forces invade Normandy, France.
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Soviet winter offensive.
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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 Soviets.
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End of WW2