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World War II Nazi-Germany
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Hitler Comes to power
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Nazis burn Reichstag building
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First Concentration camp opens.
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Gestapo Created
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Germany Burning of the Books
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Nazi party is the only legal political party in Germany
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The Night of Long Knives
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German president dies, Hitler becomes president
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German Gestapo is placed above the law.
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Nazi troops enter Austria
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Signing of German-Soviet nonaggression pact.
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WWII Begins
Germany invadeds Poland -
France and Great Britain Declare War on Germany
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Russian invades East Poland.
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Russia Attacks Finland
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First Deportation of Jews from Poland
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Italy declares war on France
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German Jews ordered into forced labor
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Germany invades U.S.S.R.
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Japan bombs pearl harbor
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Deportation starts
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Jews ordered to wear yellow star
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Reduction of food for Jews in Germany
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Concentration camps destroyed
Exterminations at Belzec cease after an estimated 600,000 Jews have been murdered. The camp is then dismantled, plowed over and planted. -
Gas chamber/crematory opens in Auschwitz
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WWII Ends