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signing of the treaty of versilles
The Interior of the Palace des Glaces during the signing of the Peace Terms. Versailles, France. June 1919. -
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Adolf Hitler becomes leader of National Socialist party.
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Franlin president.
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Hitler becomes Fuhrer of germany
By the summer of 1934, the elderly German President, Paul von Hindenburg, lay close to death at his country estate in East Prussia. He had been in failing health for several months, thus giving Adolf Hitler and the Nazis ample opportunity to make plans to capitalize on his demise. -
Nazis begin enthanasia on sick and disavled in Germany.
In October of 1939 amid the turmoil of the outbreak of war Hitler ordered widespread "mercy killing" of the sick and disabled. -
Germany attacks soviet union.
German soldiers battle the Russians after the start of Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi invasion of Soviet Russia. -
Goring instructs heydrich to prepare for the final soltion.
Supplementing the task assigned to you by the decree of January 24, 1939, to solve the Jewish problem by means of emigration and evacuation in the best possible way according to present conditions, I hereby charge you to carry out preparations as regards organizational, financial, and material matters for a total solution (Gesamtlösung) of the Jewish question in all the territories of Europe under German occupation. Where the competency of other central organizations touches on this matter, the -
German air raids begin against cathedral cities in Britain.
German air raids begin against cathedral cities in Britain. -
Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 Allied nations.
Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 Allied nations. -
Heydrich dies of wounds.
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Mass murder of Jews by gassing begins at Auschwitz.
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Allies land at Anzio in Italy.
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Germans counter attacks against the Anzio Bechhead
German prisoners at the Anzio beachhead below Rome, soon to be sent to prison camps. February 1944. -
Resistance uprising in Paris.
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encircle germans in the falaise pocket
A group of U.S. infantrymen pose in front of a wrecked German tank while displaying a captured swastika flag. The infantrymen were left behind to mop-up in Chambois, France, last stronghold of the Nazis in the Falaise Gap area. August 20, 1944. -
;Liberation of Paris
German POWs are led through the streets of Paris. Below: General De Gaulle leads Paris in a Victory Parade. August 25, 1944.