Research Paper

Holocaust

Period: Jan 1, 1940 to Dec 31, 1947

First Deportation of German Jews in occupied Poland

Feb 12, 1940

A pogrom in Romania results in over 2,000 Jews killed

Jan 1, 1941

Heydrich dies of his wounds

Jun 4, 1942

7,000 Jews arrested in unoccupied France

Aug 26, 1942

Newly built gas chamber/crematory II opens at Auschwitz

Mar 31, 1943

Allies

Jul 10, 1943

They enter in Sicily

Soviet troops reach former Polish border

Jan 3, 1944

Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps

Apr 30, 1945

Trials

Dec 9, 1946

23 former SS doctors and scientists go on trial before a U.S. Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Sixteeen are found quilty and 7 were hanged

Trials

Sep 15, 1947

Twenty one former SS Einsatz leaders go on trial before a U.S. Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. Fourteen are sentenced to death, with only 4 (the group commanders) actually being executed. The other death sentences are commuted.