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Hitler Becomes Chancellor
The Enabling Acts give Hitler sole power of Germany after the Reichstag fire. -
Nuremburg Laws Put Into Place
The Nuremburg laws separated people based on their "blood". There was "pure German blood", "mixed blood", and "Jewish blood". Those who were said to have Jewish blood were stripped of their German citizenship and were left with no rights. -
Night of Broken Glass
A Nazi mob attacked Jewish businesses, homes, and other places Jews held important to them after a Jewish person shot a German official in retaliation for what they did to his parents. -
World War II Begins
Germany triggers World War II when Hitler ordered an invasion of Poland since he saw it as an "unreal creation" of the Treaty of Versailles. -
Germany Sealed the Warsaw Ghetto
After the German capture of Warsaw, Poland's capital, they ordered that all Jewish people living their move to one designated part of the city. This area would come to be known as the Warsaw Ghetto, and was extremely poor and the Germans restricted resources from entering the area. 400,000 Jews lived in the area, and the ghetto was only 1.3 square miles, with an average of 7 people per room. -
Final Concentration Camp Is Liberated
Many concentration camps were being discovered and liberated by the Allied forces, and with each one, the Holocaust came closer and closer to its inevitable death. The liberation of the final concentration camp, Stutthof, assured the end of both the Holocaust and the war. -
Holocaust Is Officially Over
In 1945, the Allied forces made sufficient invasions on Germany and shortly after, Hitler committed suicide before Allied forces captured him. -
Germany Surrenders
After the invasion of Germany and the death of Hitler, Germany stood no chance against the Allies, and surrendered.