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=Where and When did the Holocaust occur? //MO// =

 Jan 30, 1933 - Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany a nation with a Jewish population of 566,000.
 * Where:** //Europe//
 * When:** //The Holocaust began with Hitler's rise to power in January of 1933 and ended on May 8, 1945. May 8th is also known as Veterans day.

Feb 28, 1933 - Emergency powers granted to Hitler as a result of the Reichstag fire.

March 22, 1933 - Nazis open Dachau concentration camp near Munich, to be followed by Buchenwald near Weimar in central Germany, Sachsenhausen near Berlin in northern Germany, and Ravensbrück for women.

March 24, 1933 - German Parliament passes Enabling Act giving Hitler dictatorial powers.

July 14, 1933 - Nazi Party is declared the only legal party in Germany; Also, Nazis pass Law to strip Jewish immigrants from Poland of their German citizenship.

Sept 29, 1933 - Nazis prohibit Jews from owning land.

Oct 4, 1933 - Jews are prohibited from being newspaper editors.// //Aug 19, 1934 - Hitler receives a 90 percent 'Yes' vote from German voters approving his new powers.

May 21, 1935 - Nazis ban Jews from serving in the military.

May 11, 1960 - Adolf Eichmann is captured in Argentina by Israeli secret service.

April 11 - 14 - Eichmann on trial in Jerusalem for crimes against the Jewish people, crimes against humanity and war crimes. Found guilty and hanged at Ramleh on May 31, 1962. A fellow Nazi reported Eichmann once said "he would leap laughing into the grave because the feeling that he had five million people on his conscience would be for him a source of extraordinary satisfaction."// 

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