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| Hitler begins serving jail term for his part in plot to overthrow the domocratic government in Germnay. During this time he writes his autobiography, Mein Komph ("my struggle"), which outlines his racial and religious theories (a "master" "aryan")) race should rule the world). |
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| Nazis win power by promising jobs and a strong Germany in times of a worldwide depression. |
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| The Nazis become Germany's largest political party ever. |
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| Hitler is appointed Germany's Reich Chancellor in January. He immediately suppresses political opposition and curtailing the rights of Jews. For "purification of the Aryan race," the first concentration camp, Dachau, is opened. |
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| The Nuremberg passed - The "Reich Citizens Law" declares that only personas of german blood are Reich citizens, and those of "impure blood" are inferior. |
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| Buchenwald Concentration Camp Opens - Jews, gypsies, Jehovah's witneses and homosexuals are ent for extermination as "enemies of the Reich" |
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| "Kristallnacht" ("night of broken glass") - Pogram ("a raid,""uprising) in Germany and in Austria. |
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| Hitler invades Czechoslavakia and Poland (ghettos are established). Identifying armbands made obligatory for all Jews in Central Poland. |
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| Germans invade Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, and France. Established concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland. Vichy government in France passes anti-Jewish laws. Warsaw ghetto sealed off. |
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| Hitler's "final solution" (the extermination of all Jews in Europe) |
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| Allied invasion of Normandy (D-day). Evacuation of Auschwitz. Hitler commits suicide. Germany surrenders. Himmler orders the destruction of crematoria as Nazis try to hide evidence of their deathcamps. |
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