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WW2 and the Holocaust - Top ten Events

  • Hitler rises to power

    Hitler rises to power
    President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany.
  • Night Of Broken Glass

    Night of broken glass- violence against Jews broke out across the Reich; In two days, over 250 synagogues were burned, over 7,000 Jewish businesses were trashed and looted, dozens of Jewish people were killed, and Jewish cemeteries, hospitals, schools, and homes were looted while police and fire brigades stood by
  • WW2 Starts

    Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe.
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    Jews are sent to concentration camps

    Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center, 65,000 Jews from Drancy, outside Paris, to the east (primarily to Auschwitz), 65,000 Jews from Drancy, outside Paris, to the east (primarily to Auschwitz), over 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center.
  • Jews deported

    September 12, 1942: Germans complete the mass deportation of about 265,000 Jews from Warsaw to Treblinka.
  • Mass deportation of Jews

    Mass deportation of Jews
    Germans begin the mass deportation of about 440,000 Jews from Hungary.
  • D-Day

    D-Day
    Allied forces invade Normandy, France
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    Liberation

    Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz camp complex, and American forces liberate the Dachau concentration camp.
  • Germany loses

    Germany surrenders to the western Allies.
  • WW2 ends

    Japan surrenders, ending the war.