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The inspectorate of concentration camps redesignates Stutthof as a concentration camp. They then had a place that they could throw the Jews away at. German authorities began deporting the Jews and Gypsiese from the Lodz ghetto to chelmno.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an executive order directing the internment of Japanese Americans and the seizure of their property.
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Over 1400 AA shells are fired at unidentified, slow-moving object in the skies over Los Angeles. The appearance of the object triggers an immediate wartime blackout over most of Southern California, with thousands of air raid wardens being deployed throughout the city. In total there are 6 deaths. Despite the several hour barrage no planes downed.
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Slovak authorities required all the Jews to wear yellow Star of David on their clothes. This is how they knew Jews from any other race.
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The SS special detachment begins gassing operations in sobider killing center ; this is a way that Hitler killed them so quickly
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The Japanese occupied the Philippines taking more than 80,000 soldiers prisoner
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The Japanese quickly took over much of Southeast Asia and were well on their way to dominance by 1942. However, the US won a critical called the Battle of Midway.
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US Eighth Air Force files its first inauspicious mission in Europe using borrowed British planes; six aircraft went out, only three came back
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American General Douglas MacArthur employs his superiors for additional firepower and troop strength to help hold Papua.
