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WW2 begins
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Germany invades Denmark and Norway
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Hans Frank, Gauleiter of Poland, states, "I ask nothing of the Jews except that they should disappear."
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430 jewish hostages were deported from Amsterdam after a dutch nazi is killed by jews
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Hitler's Commissar Order authorizes execution of anyone suspected of being a Communist official in territories about to be seized from Soviet Russia.
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3,600 Jews were arrested in Paris
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As the German Army advances, SS Einsatzgruppen follow along and conduct mass murder of Jews
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35,000 Jews from Odessa shot and seized lands.
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Einsatzgruppen shoot 10,000 Jews from the Riga ghetto in the Rumbula Forest
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Einsatzgruppen shoot 10,000 Jews from the Riga ghetto in the Rumbula Forest
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Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center
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Germans begin the deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Drancy, outside Paris, to the east (primarily to Auschwitz)
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Germans begin the mass deportation of over 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center
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German forces occupy Hungary
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Germans begin the mass deportation of about 440,000 Jews from Hungary
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Germans begin the mass deportation of about 440,000 Jews from Hungary
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As Allied troops advance, the Nazis conduct death marches of concentration camp inmates away from outlying areas.
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Russians liberate Budapest, freeing over 80,000 Jews.
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Nazis evacuate 66,000 from Auschwitz.
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Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland
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Russian troops liberate Auschwitz. By this time, an estimated 2,000,000 persons, including 1,500,000 Jews, have been murdered there.
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Approximately 40,000 prisoners freed at Bergen-Belsen by the British, who report "both inside and outside the huts was a carpet of dead bodies, human excreta, rags and filth."
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Berlin is reached by Russian troops.
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WW2 Ends