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1921
 
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Some 50,000 peasants are herded into Russia's first concentration camps      
1921
 
   
Italian immigrant anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are convicted of murder in a US trial flawed by prejudice      
1921
 
  
Tulsa race riots cap previous levels of violence, with more than eighty-five blacks killed     
1927
 
     
In spite of widespread protest and grave judicial doubt Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are sent to the electric chair        
1928
 
   
Australian police massacre Aborigines near Coniston in reprisal for a murder      
c. 1931
 
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25 million peasants are moved from the land to provide cheap labour in Stalin's new factories     
c. 1931
 
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Six million Russian peasants die after being transported to agricultural labour camps in Siberia      
1933
 
   
German chancellor Adolf Hitler orders the sterilization of carriers of hereditary mental diseases, in one of his government's first pieces of legislation      
1933
 
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Heinrich Himmler sets up the first Nazi concentration camp, at Dachau near Munich       
1933
 
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Adolf Hitler passes a law forcing the 'retirement' of all Jews working in the civil service, schools and universities