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Kristallnacht (Night of the broken glass)
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/kristallnacht A wave of violent anti-Jewish attacks in Germany and German
annexed territories. Riots instigated primarily by Nazi Party officials, members of the SA (a paramilitary organization linked with Nazi) and Hitler Youth caused the deaths of hundreds of Jews during the pogrom or in the following days and weeks. The shop windows of an estimated 7500 Jewish-owned commercials were shattered and hundreds of synagogues were destroyed. -
Wannsee Conference
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/wannsee-conference-and-the-final-solution
High-level meeting of 15 German officials, convened by Reinhard Heydrich, to discuss the so-called "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" (mass killing). Heydrich disclosed to the participants that he and the RSHA (Reich Security Main Office) will coordinate the implementation of the "Final Solution". Heydrich indicated that approximately 11,000,000 Jews in the whole Europe would fall under this program. -
Assassination attempt on Heydrich
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/reinhard-heydrich-in-depth Two Czech parachute agents succeded in rolling a hand grenade under Heydrich's transport vehicle. He was not mortally injured but grenade splinters led to an infection that killed him on June 4, 1942. As a reprisal, Hitler ordered measures against the Czech population when the towns Lidice and Lezaky were destroyed and inhabitants massacred or deported to the concentration camps. -
Vrba & Wetzler escape from Auschwitz
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-vrba-wetzler-report-auschwitz-protocols Two Slovak Jewish prisoners, Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, escaped from Auschwitz. After a tearful escape, between 25/4/1944 and 27/4/1944, they gave a first detailed account of what was happening at the death camp, including several drawings. Their report had 32 pages and was translated and disseminated to the world. -
Final verdict at Nuremberg trials
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nuremberg-trials International Military Tribunal announced its final verdicts. Twelve surviving top Nazi-Germany leaders were sentenced to death. They were tried also against the crimes of the Holocaust. Apart from this verdict, in parallel Nuremberg trials, additional 25 Nazi prominents were sentenced to death and 161 ones were convicted.
