Timeline of Events in Laurent Binet's 'HHhH.'

By MissionAnthropoid

  • The origins of Labour Day.

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    Heydrich was living in Halle-an-der-Saale.

  • Miracle of Vistula

    Soviet counterattack led the Red Army to Poland.

  • Hitler founded the SS

  • The SS are transformed into a genuine military organisation led by Himmler.

  • Heydrich enrols as a foot soldier in the SS

  • Heydrich kicked from the army.

    Heydrich, navy luitenant, is kicked out of the army because he wouldn't marry the commander in chief's (Admiral Rader) daughter after sleeping with her.

  • Heydrich a Jew?

    Gregor Strausser, member of NSDAP, runs the Arbeiter Zeitung newspaper. He reports that Heydrich may be a son of a Jew.

  • The Nazi's take power.

  • Goring surrenders the leadership of the Gestapo to the two heads of the SS

    The same day Gregor is arrested and shot, on Heydrich's orders.

  • Stalin and Tukhavevsky are promoted

    Stalin becomes Head of State, and Tukhavevsky becomes head of the Red Army.

  • Fritsch fired

    Commander in Chief Fritsch was overheard expressing anti-Nazi attitudes at a military parade in Saarbrucken and was subsequently involved in a planned sex scandal and relieved of his position.

  • Introduction of Nuremberg Laws

    Jews and Aryans are forbidden to have sexual relations.

  • Tukhavevsky is executed.

    Heydrich creates and sends a dossier around which eventually leads to the execution of Tukhavevsky.

  • Hitler > Czechoslovakia and Austria

    Hitler reveals plans to overthrow Czechoslovakia and Austria to remove any threat in operations against the West.

  • German troop movements at the Czech border

    The following day, Czech sends out a partial mobilisation of its own forces.

  • Hitler retreats

    He reveals to field officers that he wants to wipe Czech off the map.

  • Hitler reveals plans for October 1st.

    He states that France and England are no threat.

  • Kubis enrolled in the Foreign Legion

  • Kosice became pat of Hungary

  • CZECH UNIVERSITIES HIT A THREE YEAR BAN FOR POLITICAL AGITATION

  • Slovakia declares its independence and allegiance to Germany

  • Hitler declares his intention to place Czech people under the 'protection' of the German Reich

  • Benes granted political asylum in Great Britain.

    He had to promise to refrain from all political activity.
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    Creation of Ghettos and the RSA

    Heydrich sends a letter to all services about the creation of Ghettos. The next day, the RSA becomes official.
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    Operation Sea Lion and a list of assassinations

    The operation is postponed twice and then infinitely delayed. The same day, Heydrich gives orders to Standartenfuhrer Franck Six to fight all opposition groups and a list of assassinations to carry out.

  • Terezin is turned into a Ghetto and it's Barracks into a concentration camp

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    The Nazi's made Grandmother's Gully

  • SS commanders are ordered to execute Soviet Jews

    This was two week after the launch of Barborossa. Two week later, 'Jews occupying positions in the party or the State,' is replaced with 'All the Jews.'

  • The Birth of 'The Final Solution.'

  • Obergruooenfuhrer and Heydrich are named as Protectors of Bohemia and Moravia

  • Heydrich introduces the concept of Auschwitz

    He speaks of the rehousing within the Reich of those who are racially acceptable but ideologically hostile.

  • President Hacha presents the seven keys of the city to Heydrich - his new master

  • GABCIK AND KUBIS SIGN THE DOCUMENT FOR THEIR MISSION

  • GABCIK AND KUBIS RECORD THEIR FINAL WISHES

    This was considered a suicide mission.

  • Heydrich spends a week in Paris to appoint Mr Oberg the Major General of the SS

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    Ukraine is governed by the Nazis

    All Ukrainian football players are murdered for winning multiple games against Germany.

  • GABCIK AND KUBIS ENTER PRAGUE FOR THE FIRST TIME

  • The first convoy to Terezin transportation camp leaves

  • HEYDRICH APPOINTS A NEW PRIME MINISTER

  • Fuhrer's Birthday

  • Libena goes to visit her fiance, Gabcik, but he's not in.

    She leaves without knowing if she'll ever see him again.

  • The surgeon arrives for the injured Heydrich.

    12:00pm.

  • The date of Heydrich's assassination.

  • Three year anniversary of Joseph Roth's death

  • Heydrich's Mercedes appears.

    10:30am.

  • Frank tells Hitler what has happened.

    12:15pm. Hitler tells him to shoot ten thousand Czechs and to offer one million marks for any information leading to the criminal's arrests.

  • A state of emergency is declared on German radio.

    4:30pm. It was declared every ten minutes from 7:40pm, and then every five minutes from 8:20pm until 9pm.

  • All owners of properties in the Protectorate must declare all persons living with them or they will be shot.

    Message from SS - Obergruppenfuhrer.

  • Heydrich dies

  • Lidice is wiped off the map

  • 'Hitler's Madmen' was put on screen, featuring Oradour - a French village whose entire population was massacred by SS troops in 1944.

  • Heydrich is shot in a propoganda film called 'Hangmen Also Die.'

  • Operation Citadel

  • Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    It took three weeks to crush.

  • War Minister dies in detention

    Blomberg dies in detention after refusing to divorce his ex-prostitute wife.

  • Rudolph Hoss, the commander of Auschwitz, was hanged.

  • Karl/Paul Thummel is arrested by the Resistance and hanged

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    Bousquet is the main force behind the newspaper La Depede Du Midi's hard line anti-Gaullist Stance

  • Bousquet is charged with crimes against humanity

    Two years later he is shot dead in his house by a 'madman.'

  • The Narrator arrives is Bratislava and learns the first details of the assassination.

  • Helmut Knochen testifies against Heydrich

    Helmut Knocken, appointed chief od the German police in France by Heydrich himself, testifies against Heydrich, saying he wanted to overthrow Hitler.

  • The earth becomes too dry for the parachutists to dig

  • Firemen arrive outside the church where Kubis and Gabcik are hiding

  • The firemen get the house through the vent

    The water doesn't begin to rise until the following day.

  • The Germans try to smoke Gabcik and Kubis out

  • Kubis and Gabcik begin digging their escape tunnel

  • The Germans try to dazzle them but they shoot the torch out of service immediately

  • The water has risen to their knees

  • The Germans search for an alternative entrance to the church

  • The Germans find a slab beneath the altar

    It takes them three days to break it using explosives.

  • The Germans find a way in and they all begin to fight

  • The parachutists are found dead

    They each shot themselves.

  • Potucek the radio telegrapher transmits a message and manages to escape.

    He is captured and shot on 2nd July near Pardubice.