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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.