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President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany.
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SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich.
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Boycott of Jewish-owned shops and businesses in Germany.
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aw for the Reestablishment of the Professional Civil Service.
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Law for the Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases.
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Germany introduces military conscription.
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German troops march unopposed into the Rhineland.
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Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Agreement.
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Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Agreement.Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe.
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The Soviet Union occupies Poland from the east.
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Germans establish a ghetto in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland.
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
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Germany attacks western Europe (France and the Low Countries).
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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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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the United States declares war the next day.
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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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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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Rescue of Jews in Denmark.
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Germans begin the mass deportation of about 440,000 Jews from Hungary.
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D-Day: Allied forces invade Normandy, France.
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Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
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Germany surrenders to the Soviets.