Holocaust Timeline Part I

By eatgrandma

  • Rationing begins in Britain

  • Oswiecim, Poland is chosen as a site for Auschwitz, a new concentration camp

  • 1,000 German jews are deported from Stettin and other east German cities to the Lublin District

  • Finland signs a peace treaty with Soviet Union

  • Nazis invade Denmark and Norway

    Denmark jew population - 8,000
    Norway jew population - 2,000

  • The Lodz ghetto is sealed off from the outside world with 230,000 jews trapped inside

  • Rudolf Hoss, a Nazi German SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer, is chosen as the commandant of Auschwitz

  • Nazis invade France, Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg

    France - 350,000 jews
    Belgium - 65,000 jews
    Holland - 140,000 jews
    Luxembourg - 3,500 jews

  • Holland surrenders to the Nazis

  • Evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk

  • Belgium surrenders to the Nazis

  • Nazis begin to bomb Paris

  • Norway surrenders to the Nazis. Italy declares war on Britain and France

  • Germans enter Paris

  • France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany

  • General Charles de Gaulle becomes leader of the Free French

    The Free French was a government in exile who continued the Allied fight against the Axis powers after the fall of France

  • The Madagascar Plan is proposed

    A plan to send the European jews to Madagascar

  • The Battle of Britain begins

    A military campaign where the Royal Air Force defended the UK against the German Air Force til the end of June

  • Soviets occupy Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia

  • Period: to

    Italy occupies British Somaliland in East Africa

  • Germany begins bombing airfields and factories in England

  • Hitler declares a blockade on the British Isles.

    A blockade is an effort to cut off supplies, war material or communications from a particular area by force.
  • Period: to

    Great Britain begins bombing Berlin

  • Operation Sea Lion, a Nazi invasion on Britain, occurs

  • Germans begin a heavy air raid on Britain