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The Holocaust refers to the period from January 30, 1933 - when Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany - to May 8, 1945, when the war in Europe officially ended. During this time, Jews in Europe were subjected to progressively harsher persecution that ultimately led to the murder of 6,000,000 Jews (1.5 million of these being children) and the destruction of 5,000 Jewish communities. After defeat in World War I, Germany was embarrassed by the Versailles Treaty. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nation Socialist German Workers (Nazi) Party, was name the chancellor of Germany of 1932. The Nazi Party had taken advantage of the political unrest in Germany to gain an electoral foothold. The Nazis incited clashes with the communists and conducted a vicious propaganda campaign against its political opponents - the weak Wiemar government and the Jews whom the Nazis blamed for Germany's ills. The Germans, as the strongest and fittest, were destined to rule, while the weak and racially adulterated Jews were doomed to extinction. Hitler began to restrict the Jews with legislation and terror, which entailed burning books written by Jews, removing Jews from their professions and public schools, confiscating their businesses and property and excluding them from public events. The most infamous of the anti-Jewish legislation were the Nuremberg Laws, enacted on September 15, 1935. They formed the legal basis for the Jews' exclusion from German society and the progressively restrictive Jewish policies of the Germans. After World War I the Germans felt very weak after they got defeat. Hitler became in charge and decided to take advantage of the Jews to increase his power.


 * January 30, 1933 ** - **Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000. ||
 * August 19, 1934 ** - ** Hitler receives a 90 percent 'Yes' vote from German voters approving his new powers. ||
 * August 11, 1938 ** - ** Nazis destroy the synagogue in Nuremberg. ||
 * November 9/10, 1938 ** - **Kristallnacht - The Night If Broken Glass. ||
 * February 21, 1939 ** - ** Nazis force Jews to hand over all gold and silver items. ||
 * September 29, 1939** - ** Nazis and Soviets divide up Poland. Over two million Jews reside in Nazi controlled areas, leaving 1.3 million in the Soviet area. ||
 * April 9, 1940 - Nazis invade Denmark (Jewish pop. 8,000) and Norway (Jewish pop. 2,000). ||
 * April 30, 1945 ** - ** Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps ||
 * January 27, 1945 ** - **Russian troops liberate Auschwitz. By this time, an estimated 2,000,000 persons, including 1,500,000 Jews, have been murdered there ||
 * May 11, 1960 ** - ** Adolf Eichmann is captured in Argentina by the Israeli secret service. ||