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![German forces enter Aachen, on the border with Belgium, following the remilitarization of the Rhineland. [LCID: 70032]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/4d587734-0984-4f9f-9d7d-5e2b5e87dacc.jpg)
제2차 세계대전 직전과 과정의 연대표. 유럽 유대인 대량 학살은 2차 세계대전 맥락에 발생했다. 독일군은 유럽, 소련, 북아프리카를 점령하면서 나치 정권의 반유대주의 인종 정책이 더욱 급진적으로 악화되고 탄압부터 대량 학살로 변하게 되었다.
![Women survivors huddled in a prisoner barracks shortly after Soviet forces liberated the Auschwitz camp. [LCID: 31450b]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/8fdec1b8-47fa-40f1-9a27-06e7262bad5e.jpg)
![Blanka Rothschild holds one of her prewar family photographs. [LCID: athbr039]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/11721704-922d-4af9-8e09-16ab9e4123c5.jpg)
