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17 events · 16 research items · April 15, 1853 to February 24, 2026
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Herero and Nama Genocide
Wars & Conflicts January 12, 1904

Herero and Nama Genocide

Herero And Nama Genocide On January 12, 1904, members of the Herero community initiated an armed uprising against German colonial authorities in German South West Afr...

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Adolf Hitler
Published Research World Wars: Power, Conflict & Consequence

Adolf Hitler

30 January 1933–30 April 1945 — Hitler rules Germany as dictator and becomes the central political authority behind Nazi expansion, racial policy and the decision to l...

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Adolf Hitler
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Adolf Hitler

30 January 1933–30 April 1945 — Hitler rules Germany as dictator and becomes the central political authority behind Nazi expansion, racial policy and the decision to l...

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Adolf Hitler
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Adolf Hitler

30 January 1933–30 April 1945 — Hitler rules Germany as dictator and becomes the central political authority behind Nazi expansion, racial policy and the decision to l...

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Babi Yar Massacre Begins
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Babi Yar Massacre Begins

29 September 1941 — German SS, police and associated units murder tens of thousands of Jews in the Babi Yar ravine near Kyiv over two days. The massacre becomes one of...

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Generalplan Ost
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Generalplan Ost

1 January 1942 — By 1942 SS planning for a postwar German empire in Eastern Europe envisions massive population displacement, German settlement and racial reordering. ...

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Germany Invades Poland
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Germany Invades Poland

1 September 1939 — German forces invade Poland from the west, north and south, beginning the European phase of the Second World War. The attack follows months of escal...

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Heinrich Himmler
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Heinrich Himmler

17 June 1936 — Himmler becomes Chief of German Police in addition to leading the SS, giving him extraordinary authority over policing, surveillance and racial policy. ...

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Heinrich Himmler
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Heinrich Himmler

17 June 1936 — Himmler becomes Chief of German Police in addition to leading the SS, giving him extraordinary authority over policing, surveillance and racial policy. ...

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Nazi Party
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Nazi Party

1933–1945 ruling system — The Nazi Party becomes the political backbone of Hitler's dictatorship and penetrates government, education, propaganda, labor organizations ...

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Operation Barbarossa
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Operation Barbarossa

22 June 1941 — Germany and its allies invade the Soviet Union along an enormous front. Hitler seeks not only military victory but ideological destruction of Soviet com...

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Operation Barbarossa Begins
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Operation Barbarossa Begins

22 June 1941 — Germany and its allies invade the Soviet Union along a vast front from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Hitler expects the Soviet state to collapse after a ...

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SS
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SS

1933–1945 — Heinrich Himmler's SS develops from a Nazi Party formation into an enormous system involving policing, intelligence, racial policy, concentration camps, se...

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SS
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SS

1933–1945 — Heinrich Himmler's SS develops from a Nazi Party formation into an enormous system involving policing, intelligence, racial policy, concentration camps, se...

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