World War II timeline-Holocaust

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  • Rationing in Britain begins

  • Aushwitz

    The town of Aushwitz is chosen for the new concentration camp

  • German Jews deported to Poland

  • USSR and Finland sign a peace treaty.

  • Germany invades Denmark and Norway

    Denmark Jew pop.:8000
    Norway Jew pop.:2000

  • Poland, Lodz Ghetto sealed off

    230,000 inhabitants

  • Commandant of Aushwitz

    Rudolf Hoss is chosen to be the commandant of Aushwitz. He was an SS-Obersturmbahnfuhrer

  • Germany invades...

    France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands.
    Fra:350,000
    Bel:65,000
    Net:140,000
    Lux:3,500

  • Netherlands Surrenders

  • Dunkirk

    Allied troops trapped on the beach of Dunkirk are evacuated.

  • Belgium surrenders

  • Germany bombs Paris

  • Norway surrenders

    Italy declares war on France & UK

  • German troops enter Paris

  • France signs an armistice

  • Madagascar Plan

    Eichmann proposes deporting all Jews to Madagascar

  • Battle of Britain

    the Royal Air Force defends Britain from the German Air Force

  • USSR occupies, Lithuania,Latvia and Estonia

  • Italy takes over British Somaliland

    Aug. 3-19

  • German bombing

    airfields and factories in Britain

  • Hitler begins a blockade of Britain

  • U.K. begins bombing Berlin

    Aug 25-26

  • Operation Sea Lion

    Germany's plan to invade Britain after achieving control of the English channel

  • Germany begins heavy bombing of England

  • Charles de Gaulle

    Charles De Gaulle becomes the leader of the free french, the gov in exile resisting the Germans