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| 1927 |
| | | In spite of widespread protest and grave judicial doubt Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are sent to the electric chair | |
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| 1928 |
| | | Australian police massacre Aborigines near Coniston in reprisal for a murder | |
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| c. 1931 |
| | | 25 million peasants are moved from the land to provide cheap labour in Stalin's new factories | |
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| c. 1931 |
| | | Six million Russian peasants die after being transported to agricultural labour camps in Siberia | |
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| 1933 |
| | | German chancellor Adolf Hitler orders the sterilization of carriers of hereditary mental diseases, in one of his government's first pieces of legislation | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Heinrich Himmler sets up the first Nazi concentration camp, at Dachau near Munich | |
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| 1933 |
| | | Adolf Hitler passes a law forcing the 'retirement' of all Jews working in the civil service, schools and universities | |
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| 1935 |
| | | Adolf Hitler promulgates a law prohibiting any sexual relationship between Jews and 'Aryans' | |
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| 1937 |
| | | At the same time as the Moscow show trials, millions are purged from the Russian Communist party nation-wide | |
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| 1937 |
| | | Buchenwald, near Weimar, is set up as a concentration camp providing forced labour for local arms manufacturers | |
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