Download THE HOLOCAUST AND WORLD WAR II: TIMELINE

THE HOLOCAUST AND WORLD WAR II: TIMELINE
January 30, 1933: President Hindenburg appoints Adolf Hitler
Chancellor of Germany.
March 20, 1933: SS opens the D achau concentration camp outside of
Munich.
April 1, 1933: Boycott of Jew ish-ow ned shops and businesses in
Germany.
April 7, 1933: Law for the Reestablishm ent of the Professional Civil Service.
July 14, 1933: Law for the Prevention of Progeny w ith Hereditary
D iseases.
September 15, 1935: N uremberg Race Law s.
March 16, 1935: Germ any introd u ces military conscrip tion.
March 7, 1936: German troop s m arch u nop p osed into the Rhineland .
Au gu st 1, 1936: Summ er Olym pics begin in Berlin.
March 11-13, 1938: Germ any incorporates Au stria in the A nschluss(Union).
N ovember 9/10, 1938: Krist allnacht (nationw ide pogrom in Germany).
May 13, 1939: The St. Louis sails from H am bu rg, Germ any.
Sep tem ber 29, 1938: Mu nich Agreem ent.
Au gu st 23, 1939: Nazi-Soviet N onaggression Agreem ent.
Sep tem ber 1, 1939: Germany invad es Poland , starting World War II in Eu rop e.
Sep tem ber 17, 1939: The Soviet Union occu pies Poland from the east.
October 8, 1939: Germans establish a ghetto in Piotrków Trybunalski,
Poland.
April 9, 1940: Germany invad es Denm ark and N orw ay.
May 10, 1940: Germany attacks w estern Europ e (France and the Low Countries).
Ju ly 10, 1940: Battle of Britain begins.
Ap ril 6, 1941: Germ any invad es Yugoslavia and Greece.
Ju ne 22, 1941: Germ any invad es the Soviet Union.
July 6, 1941: Einsat z gruppen (mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000
Jew s at the Seventh Fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications
surrounding Kovno.
August 3, 1941: Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen of Muenster
denounces the “euthanasia” killing program in a public sermon.
September 28-29, 1941: Einsatzgruppen shoot about 34,000 Jew s at Babi
Yar, outside Kiev.
N ovember 7, 1941: Einsatzgruppen round up 13,000 Jew s from
theMinsk ghetto and kill them in nearby Tuchinki (Tuchinka).
N ovember 30, 1941: Einsatzgruppen shoot 10,000 Jew s from
the Rigaghetto in the Rumbula Forest.
December 6, 1941: Soviet w inter cou nteroffensive.
December 7, 1941: Jap an bombs Pearl Harbor and the United States d eclares war the next d ay.
D ecember 8, 1941: The first killing operations begin at Chelmno in
occupied Poland.
December 11, 1941: N azi Germany d eclares war on the United States.
January 16, 1942: Germans begin the mass deportation of more than
65,000 Jew s from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center.
Janu ary 20, 1942: Wannsee Conference held near Berlin, Germany.
March 27, 1942: Germans begin the deportation of more than 65,000 Jew s
from D rancy, outside Paris, to the east (primarily toAuschw itz).
Ju ne 28, 1942: Germ any lau nches a new offensive tow ard s the city of Stalingrad .
July 15, 1942: Germans begin mass deportations of nearly 100,000 Jew s
from the occupied N etherlands to the east (primarily to Auschw itz).
July 22, 1942: Germans begin the mass deportation of over 300,000 Je w s
from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center.
September 12, 1942: Germans complete the mass deportation of about
265,000 Jew s from Warsaw to Treblinka.
N ovem ber 23, 1942: Soviet troop s cou nterattack at Stalingrad , trapp ing the Germ an Sixth Arm y in
the city.
April 19, 1943: Warsaw ghetto uprising begins.
Ju ly 5, 1943: Battle of Kursk.
October 1, 1943: Rescue of Jew s in D enmark.
N ovem ber 6, 1943: Soviet troop s liberate Kiev.
March 19, 1944: Germ ans forces occu p y H u ngary.
May 15, 1944: Germans begin the mass deportation of about 440,000 Jew s
from Hungary.
Ju ne 6, 1944: D-Day: Allied forces invad e N ormand y, France.
Ju ne 22, 1944: The Soviets lau nch an offensive in eastern Beloru ssia (Belaru s).
Ju ly 25, 1944: Anglo-Am erican forces break out of Normand y.
Au gu st 1, 1944: Warsaw Polish u p rising begins.
Au gu st 15, 1944: Allied forces land in southern France.
Au gu st 25, 1944: Liberation of Paris.
December 16, 1944: Battle of the Bu lge.
Janu ary 12, 1945: Soviet winter offensive.
January 18, 1945: D eath march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the
Auschw itz camp system in southern Poland.
January 25, 1945: D eath march of nearly 50,000 prisoners from
theStutthof camp system in northern Poland.
January 27, 1945: Soviet troops liberate the Auschw itz camp complex.
March 7, 1945: US troop s cross the Rhine River at Rem agen.
Ap ril 16, 1945: The Soviets lau nch their final offensive, encircling Berlin.
April 29, 1945: American forces liberate the D achau concentration camp.
Ap ril 30, 1945: Ad olf Hitler com mits su icid e.
May 7, 1945: Germ any surrend ers to the w estern Allies.
May 9, 1945: Germ any surrend ers to the Soviets.