Holocaust Project Timeline

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  • Helmut Hans Günther is born.

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    The Life of Helmut Günther

  • Hitler is elected Fürher of the Weimar Republic.

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  • Kristallnacht begins.

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  • Helmut and his family split up and go into hiding.

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  • Kristallnacht concludes.

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  • Germany attacks Poland.

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    World War II

  • France, Great Britain, Australia, South Africa, Canada, and New Zealand declare war on Germany.

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  • Helmut's hiding place is discovered, and an S.S. officer and two Gestapo capture him.

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  • After a six and a half hour drive from Dresden, Germany to Warsaw, Poland, Helmut arrives at the Warsaw Ghetto.

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  • Nazis begin second Warsaw Ghetto deportation, causing uprisings.

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  • Nazis once again come to collect people for deportation, to make up for not being able to get the correct amount the first time. War breaks out in the ghetto.

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  • Helmut dies in the fighting.

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  • Uprising (mostly) ends.

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  • Uprising totally ends

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  • Germany attacks the Soviet Union.

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  • Italy surrenders.

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  • D-Day.

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  • German forces surrender.

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  • Hiroshima is bombed with an atomic bomb, codenamed "Little Boy".

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  • Nagasaki is bombed with an atomic bomb, codenamed "Fat Man".

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  • Japan announces that it will surrender.

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  • World War II officially ends, as Japan signs an instrument of surrender.

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