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Germany introduces military conscription.
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German troops march unopposed into the Rihnland.
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On May 13, 1939, the German transatlantic liner St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, Germany, for Havana, Cuba. On the voyage were 937 passengers. Almost all were Jews fleeing from the Third Reich.
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On this day in 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact, stunning the world, given their diametrically opposed ideologies.
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Germany invades Poland, starting WW 2 in Europe.
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Germans establish a Ghetto in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland.
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Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000 jews at the seventh fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno.
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Einsatzgruppen shoot 25,000 Jews from the Riga ghetto in the Rumbula Forest.
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Nazi Germany declares war on the United States
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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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Germans complete the mass deportation of about 265,000 Jews from Warsaw to Treblinka
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Rescue of jews in Denmark.
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Germans begin the mass deportation of about 440,000 Jews from Hungary
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June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France.
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Warsaw Polish uprising begins
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Allied forces land in southern France
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Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland
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U.S. troops cross the Rhine River at Remagen
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