United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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History Modern

Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany

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History War & Conflict

Soviet troops liberate the Auschwitz concentration camp

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Society & Economy Politics & Law

The Dreyfus Affair conviction shook France

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History War & Conflict

The German invasion of Poland began World War II

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History War & Conflict

The Nazi massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane

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Society & Economy Politics & Law

The Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders began

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History Modern

The Reichstag burns, and German democracy with it

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Society & Economy Politics & Law

The trial of Adolf Eichmann opened in Jerusalem

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History War & Conflict

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began against Nazi occupation

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History War & Conflict

The Warsaw Uprising began

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History War & Conflict

A Bomb Plot Against Hitler Failed

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History Modern

Anne Frank and her family were arrested in Amsterdam

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History Modern

Kristallnacht pogroms swept Nazi Germany

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Sports Olympics

The Olympic torch relay was invented for the 1936 Berlin Games

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