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1939-08-22Armenian Quote?

Hitler is alleged to have said in a speech to Wehrmacht commanders: "Who still talks nowadays of the extermination of the Armenians?". The veracity of the quote is contested.

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1939-07-06Jewish Businesses Closed

The last remaining Jewish owned businesses in Germany are closed down by the Nazi regime.

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1939-04-07Albania

Italy invades Albania

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1939-03-15Czechoslovakia Occupied

German troops enter Bohemia and Moravia, meeting no resistance. Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.

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1938-11-091938-11-10Kristallnacht

The Night of Broken Glass was a pogrom in Nazi Germany and Austria which changed the nature of persecution from economic, political, and social to the physical with beatings, incarceration, and murder; often referred to as the beginning of the Holocaust

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1938-10-01Danzig

Hitler demands the return of Danzig to Germany and communications rights in the 'Danzig Corridor' in Poland. The 'Danzig Corridor' separates Germany from it's province in East Prussia.

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1938-09-29Munich Agreement

British prime minister Chamberlain negotiates for Peace in our Time. This agreement granted Germany the Sudetenland, a German-speaking area of Czechosolvakia. Hitler promises this will be his last territorial demand.

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1938-08-07Mauthausen-Gusen

Prisoners from Dachau were sent to the town of Mauthausen near Linz, Austria, to begin the construction of a new camp. After it's completion between 122,766 and 320,000 people were murdered at Mauthausen-Gusen.

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1938-03-13Anschluss

Austria is annexed to Germany. Hitler achieves his aim of uniting the two German-speaking nations of Europe.

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1937-11-05Liebensraum

The Hossbach Memorandum summaries a meeting between Hilter and his military and foreign policy leadership. The meeting marks a turning point and radicalization in German foreign policy. "It was therefore a question of space."

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