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The "night of broken glass" the Nazi Germans attacked the Jewish, burning hundreds of synagogues and vandalised thousands Jews homes and businesses. -
WW2 Started when Nazi Germany invaded Poland -
Auschwitz was Germany's largest concentration camp, it was actually three camps in one, a prison camp, an extermination camp and a slave-labour camp. -
The bombing of pearl harbour was a surprise Military strike by the imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the US against the naval base at pearl harbour -
Japanese warplanes struck Darwin harbour, where an important section of the american fleet was at anchor, causing the death of over 300 people and extensive damage to the harbour, airfields and city. -
soviet forces liberated Auschwitz. in the weeks preceding the arrival of Soviet units, Auschwitz camp personnel had forced the majority of Auschwitz prisoners to march westward in what would become known as the "death marches". When they entered the camp, soviet soldiers found over six thousand emaciated prisoners alive. -
As soviet forces near his command bunker in central Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide, Berlin falls to the soviets within days. -
A bomb nicknamed "little boy" was dropped and exploded 1,800 feet above the city of Hiroshima, Japan. The bomb reduced 5 square miles of the city centre to ashes and caused the death of an estimated 120,000 within the first days following the blast. -
The day the Japanese delegation formally signs the instrument of surrender on board the USS Missouri, marking the official end of WW2 -
Numenburg was a series of trials in which former Nazi leaders were indicted and tried as war criminals by the international military tribunal.