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Hitler in Reichstag speech: if war erupts it will mean the Vernichtung (extermination) of European Jews.
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Germans occupy Czechoslovakia.
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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.
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Germans occupy Denmark and southern Norway.
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Germany invades the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France.
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France surrenders.
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Anti-Jewish riots in Romania, hundreds of Jews butchered.
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Germany attacks Yugoslavia and Greece; occupation follows
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Germany invades the Soviet Union.
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Extermination begins in Belzec; by end of 1942 600,000 Jews murdered.
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Extermination by gas begins in Sobibor killing center; by October 1943, 250,000 Jews murdered.
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Deportation of Jews from Germany, Greece and Norway to killing centers; Jewish partisan movement organized in forests near Lublin.
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German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad
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Warsaw Ghetto revolt begins as Germans attempt to liquidate 70,000 inhabitants; Jewish underground fights Nazis until early June
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Armed resistance by Jews in Bedzin, Bialystok, Czestochowa, Lvov, and Tarnow ghettos
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Germany occupies Hungary.
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D-Day: Allied invasion at Normandy.
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Group of German officers attempt to assassinate Hitler.
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V-E Day: Germany surrenders; end of Third Reich
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Hitler commits suicide, liberation of Ravensbruck.
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Bombing of Hiroshima
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Bombing of Nagasaki
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Japan surrenders; end of World War II