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Germany was defeated at the end of World War I.
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Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles in France, officially ending WWI, which weakened Germany's power.
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Hitler's propaganda memoir "Mein Kampf" was published, noted for going into detail of his ideal race.
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Dachau, the first concentration camp, was opened in southern Germany for criminals, Gypsies, homosexuals, asocials, and Jews.
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Hitler became the dictator of Germany through the Enabling Act.
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Nuremberg Race Laws stripped German Jews of their rights and citizenship.
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The Gestapo, or secret German police, were placed above the law.
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"Anschluss" (union) was established between Austria and Germany, bringing along Germany's anti-semitic laws.
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"Kristallnacht", The Night of Broken Glass; A violent outbreak arose within Austria targeted against Jews.
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Hitler performed a Reichstag speech to threaten Jews.
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Nazis invade Poland to spite them for gaining German provinces from the Treaty of Versailles.
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In Germany, euthanasia is performed on the weak and sick.
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The Gestapo began "Einsatzgruppen", or mobile killing units, who were ordered to kill racial or political enemies of Germany,
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Hermann Göring instructed Reinhard Heydrich, a fellow leader of the Nazi party, to prepare for the "Final Solution", or slaughter of every European Jew.
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Nazis ordered the Jews of Poland, then other countries, to wear a yellow star on their clothing to identify them, or they would be punished.
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The first use of cyanide gas chambers took place at Auschwitz, the largest killing and concentration camp.
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The Nazis massacred 33,771 Jews in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, 10 days after it is taken over.
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Heydrich held the Wannsee Conference in Wannsee, Berlin to organize the Final Solution.
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The mass murder of Jews via gassing had begun at Auschwitz.
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Germany's Warsaw Ghetto had deportations to concentration camps. (6k Jews to Treblinka per day.)
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The Treblinka extermination and labor camp for both Warsaw Jews and non-Jewish Polish was opened.
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Waffen Gestapo attempted to clear the Warsaw ghetto's remaining 60k Jews (decreased by 90%), which resulted in an uprising that ultimately failed.
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The Soviets performed the first liberation, or freedom, of prisoners of the Majdanek concentration camp in Poland,
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The last use of the gas chambers at Auschwitz had taken place.
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Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz. However, Nazis forced most to march west, leaving only several thousand starved prisoners to be rescued.
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Dachau camp was liberated by the U.S. 7th Army.
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All German forces surrendered to the Allies 8 days after Hitler's suicide.
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Many former Nazi members were tried in court for their crimes, known as the Nuremberg War Crime Trials.