WWII Holocaust By osmarwashere Jan 30, 1933 President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany Mar 20, 1933 SS opens the Dachau concentration camp outside of Munich Mar 11, 1938 Germany incorporates Austria in the Anschluss (Union) Nov 9, 1938 Kristallnacht (nationwide pogrom in Germany) Aug 23, 1939 Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Agreement Sep 1, 1939 Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe Sep 17, 1939 The Soviet Union occupies Poland from the east Oct 8, 1939 Germans establish a ghetto in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland Apr 9, 1940 Germany invades Denmark and Norway May 10, 1940 Germany attacks western Europe (France and the Low Countries) Jul 10, 1940 Battle of Britain begins Apr 6, 1941 Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece Jun 22, 1941 Germany invades the Soviet Union Jul 6, 1941 Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000 Jews at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno Aug 3, 1941 Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen of Muenster denounces the “euthanasia” killing program in a public sermon Dec 6, 1941 Soviet winter counteroffensive Dec 7, 1941 Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the U.S. declares war the next day Dec 8, 1941 1. Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the U.S. declares war the next day Jan 16, 1942 Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center Jan 20, 1942 Wannsee Conference held near Berlin, Germany Sep 12, 1942 Germans complete the mass deportation of about 265,000 Jews from Warsaw to Treblinka May 15, 1944 Germans begin the mass deportation of about 440,000 Jews from Hungary Jun 6, 1944 D-Day: Allied forces invade Normandy, France May 7, 1945 Germany surrenders to the western Allies May 9, 1945 Germany surrenders to the Soviets
