World War Two

On January 30, 1933 President Hindenburg appointed Hitler Chancellor. Within months of being Chancellor, Hitler set up the first concentration camp, Dachau. The Nazis began arresting Communists, Socialists, and labor leaders. Dachau became a training center for concentration camp guards and later commandants who were taught terror tactics to dehumanize their prisoners. The Nazis encouraged boycotts of Jewish-owned shops and businesses and began book burnings of writings by Jews and by others not approved by the Reich.

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