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Luftwaffe General Hermann Göring controls most of the war industries in Germany for the Axis powers. The axis powers was a Anti-Comintern Pact. The treaty was signed by Germany and also Japan (1936).
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A German plane carrying secret plans for the invasion of western Europe makes a forced landing in Belgium, leading to mobilization of defense forces in the Low Countries.
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The Battle of France begins, and German forces invading on lower countries ( Netherlands, belgium, Luxembourg)
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Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.
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German ships set out for the invasion of Norway.
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April 9 – WWII: Germany invades the neutral countries of Denmark and Norway in Operation Weserübung, opening the Norwegian Campaign. The British Royal Navy attempts to attack elements of the German fleet off Norway. Vidkun Quisling proclaims a new collaborationist regime in Norway. The German invasion of Denmark lasts for about six hours before that country capitulates.
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The British Royal Navy attacks the German fleet in the Ofotfjord.
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The British troops occpied the Faroe islands and were following the German invasion of Denmark.
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The royal British Navy had caused all of the eight defending German destroyers in Ofotfjord to be sunk,
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The German armies had opened a wide breach in the Maginot Line (Sedan, France).
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Rotterdam was subjected to bombing by Luftwaffe (Luftwaffe was a branch of the German air force). 2o thousand buildings were desrtoryed and more than 900 people were killed. General Henri Winkelman had announces=d surrender of the Dutch army to the German forces. Recruitment begins in Britain for a home defence force.
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The German extermination camp occupied Poland.
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Pais was bombed by the Luftwaffe (Nazi air force) for the first time.
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Many events happened. First, Italy had declared war on UK and France. Canada also declared war on Italy. The German forces made The Norwegian Army surrender. Paris also declared itself asd an open city, Which means, that Paris has abandoned all their defensive efforts.
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French goverment fleed to Bordeaux. Paris falls under the German occupation. 728 Polish prisoners become the first resients of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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Verdun falls to German forces. Verdun is the north-eastern France.
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The picture shows general Charle de Gaulle... Winston Churchill tells the House of Commons of the United Kingdom: "The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin."
General Charles de Gaulle (Leader of the Free French Forces) makes his first broadcast appeal from London telling the French Resistance to continue to fight against Nazi German, "France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war". -
Winston Churchill, in a worldwide broadcast, proclaims the intention of Great Britain to fight alone against Germany whatever the outcome: "We shall seek no terms. We shall tolerate no parley. We may show mercy. We shall ask none."
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Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on London (the first of 57 consecutive nights of strategic bombing).
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"Second Great Fire of London" Luftwaffe carries out a massive incendiary bombing raid, starting 1,500 fires. Many famous buildings, including the Guildhall and Trinity House, are either damaged or destroyed.
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The Nazis forcibly restored Pierre Laval to office in occupied Vichy France.
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Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas tear down the Nazi swastika on the Acropolis in Athens, and replace it with the Greek flag.
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The Holocaust was the mass murder of approximately six million Jews. It was under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring orders S.S (Part of Nazi party).
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The requirement to wear the Star of David with the word "Jew" inscribed, is extended to all Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas.
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The Holocaust: The Nazi German concentration camp opens in occupied Poland on the outskirts of the town Lublin. Between October 1941 and July 1944 at least 200,000 people will be killed in the camp.
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Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule.
He states that, "even though 350,000 troops have been killed in German attacks so far, that the Germans have lost 4.5 million soldiers and that Soviet victory is near." -
Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army.
