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1-30-33President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler as Reichs Chancellor (Prime Minister).
3-5-33Hitler takes full control of Germany.
3-20-33First concentration camp, Dachau, established.
3-23-33 (Hitler) legislative authority.
5-10-33 Burning of books written by Jews and opponents of Nazism.
8-2-34President Hindenburg dies. Offices of President and Chancellor combined. Hitler becomes sole leader (Fuhrer) and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces.
7-16-37 Buchenwald concentration camp opens.
Autumn-1937Beginning of the systematic take over of Jewish property.
1-30-39Hitler predicts in the parliament of the "extermination of the Jewish race in Europe" in the event of war.
9-1-39Germany attacks Poland. World War II begins.
10-08-39First ghetto
4-27-40 Himmler directive to establish a concentration camp at Auschwitz.
9-3-41First gassing tests in Auschwitz.
12-7-41Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
Starting end of Mar-42Arrival of initial transports of Jews at the concentration and extermination camps Auschwitz (Auschwitz I & Auschwitz II).
7-4-42Start of mass gassings at Auschwitz.
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12-17-42Allies solemnly condemn the extermination of the Jews and promise to punish the perpetrators.
10-20-43U.N. War Crimes Commission is established.
11-26-44Himmler orders the destruction of the crematorium at Auschwitz-Birkenau, as Nazis try to hide evidence of the death camps.
4-30-45Hitler commits suicide. 1-17-45
Evacuation of Auschwitz. The "Death March" of prisoners begins.
8-6-45First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
8-15-45Japan surrenders: End of World War II.