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Adolf Hitler is born in Austria.

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Hitler blamed the Jews for the country's defeat.

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All of the blame for WWI was placed on the Germans in the Treaty of Versailles.

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From 1933 to 1939, hundreds of thousands of Jews who were able to leave Germany did, while those who remained lived in a constant state of uncertainty and fear.--

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Hitler was named chancellor of Germany.

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In 1933, Jews in Germany numbered around 525,000, or only 1 percent of the total German population.

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After President Paul von Hindenburg’s death in 1934, Hitler anointed himself as “Fuhrer,” becoming Germany’s supreme ruler.

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Nuremberg Laws of 1935, anyone with three or four Jewish grandparents was considered a Jew, while those with two Jewish grandparents were designated Mischlinge (half-breeds).

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November 1938, when German synagogues were burned and windows in Jewish shops were smashed. Some 100 Jews were killed and thousands more arrested.

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The German army occupied the western half of Poland.

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In the fall of 1939, Nazi officials selected around 70,000 Germans institutionalized for mental illness or disabilities to be gassed to death in the so-called euthanasia program.

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June 1941, experiments with mass killing methods had been ongoing at the concentration camp of Auschwitz.

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--one of Hitler's top commanders wrote about the need for a "final solution" to "the Jewish question."

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Hitler put an end to the program in August 1941

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every person designated as a Jew in German-held territory was marked with a yellow star.

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Beginning in late 1941, the Germans began transporting huge numbers of people from the ghettos in Poland to the concentration camps. They started with those people viewed as the least useful: the sick, the old, the weak and the very young.

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From 1942 to 1945, Jews were deported to the camps from all over Europe.

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The beginning of Japanese-American Internment in the US.

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The first mass gassings began at the camp of Belzec on March 17, 1942. --

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The heaviest deportations took place during the summer and fall of 1942, when more than 300,000 people were deported from the Warsaw Ghetto alone.

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During the summer of 1944, even as Germany was beginning to lose the war, a large part of Hungary’s Jewish population was deported to Auschwitz. As many as 12,000 Jews were killed every day.

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In 1945, the Allies began the Nuremberg Trials, an effort to punish the villains of the Holocaust. The trials brought Nazi atrocities to horrifying light. Increasingly, there was pressure on the Allied powers to create a homeland for Jewish survivors of the Holocaust.

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German leadership was suffering from internal conflict. Several Nazi leaders were trying to distance themselves from Hitler and take power.

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In his last will, dictated in a German bunker on April 29, Hitler blamed the war on “international Jewry and its helpers.”

The following day, he committed suicide.

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Germany’s formal surrender in World War II came barely a week later, on May 8, 1945.

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Allies issued the Potsdam Declaration: surrender or face utter destruction, which Japan ignored.

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The bombing of Hiroshima, Japan by the Allied Nations.

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The Bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, which led to Japan's surrender.

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Japan surrenders, officially ending WWII on the Pacific front.

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In 1945, the Allies began the Nuremberg Trials, an effort to punish the villains of the Holocaust. The trials brought Nazi atrocities to horrifying light. Increasingly, there was pressure on the Allied powers to create a homeland for Jewish survivors of the Holocaust.

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. In many cases they had lost their families and been denounced by their non-Jewish neighbors. As a result, the late 1940s saw a great number of refugees and other displaced populations moving across Europe.

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Increasingly, there was pressure on the Allied powers to create a homeland for Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. This eventually led to the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948.

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In 1953, the German government began to make payments to individual Jews and to the Jewish people. This was a way of acknowledging responsibility for the crimes committed in their name.