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Hitler Speech
Hitler in Reichstag speech: if war erupts it will mean the Vernichtung (extermination) of European Jews. -
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Holocaust Timespan
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German Occupancy
Germans occupy Czechoslovakia. -
WW2 Begins
Beginning of World War II: Germany invades Poland. In the following weeks, 16.336 civilians are murdered by the Nazies in 714 localities. At least 5,000 victims were Jews. -
Germans Invade Denmark
Germans occupy Denmark and southern Norway. -
Germany Invades France
Germany invades the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France. -
Germany Takes Frances
France surrenders. -
Anti Jewishs Riots Begin
Anti-Jewish riots in Romania, hundreds of Jews butchered. -
Germans attack Greece and Yugoslavia
Germany attacks Yugoslavia and Greece; occupation follows -
Germany vs. Russia
Germany invades the Soviet Union. -
Jewish Extermination
Extermination begins in Belzec; by end of 1942 600,000 Jews murdered. -
More Jewish Exterminations
Extermination by gas begins in Sobibor killing center; by October 1943, 250,000 Jews murdered. -
Deportation
Deportation of Jews from Germany, Greece and Norway to killing centers; Jewish partisan movement organized in forests near Lublin. -
German 6th Army Surrenders
German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad -
Warsaw Ghetto Revolts
Warsaw Ghetto revolt begins as Germans attempt to liquidate 70,000 inhabitants; Jewish underground fights Nazis until early June -
Jewish Rebellion Rises
Armed resistance by Jews in Bedzin, Bialystok, Czestochowa, Lvov, and Tarnow ghettos -
Germany vs. Hungary
Germany occupies Hungary. -
D-Day
D-Day: Allied invasion at Normandy. -
Assassination Attempt
Group of German officers attempt to assassinate Hitler. -
Germany Defeted
V-E Day: Germany surrenders; end of Third Reich -
Hitler Suicides
Hitler commits suicide, liberation of Ravensbruck. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
Bombing of Hiroshima -
Bombing of Nagasaki
Bombing of Nagasaki -
Japan Defeted
Japan surrenders; end of World War II