Holocaust Timeline 1939

By oscar098
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  • Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Agreement.

    Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Agreement.

  • Germany Invades

    Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe.

  • September 17, 1939

    The Soviet Union occupies Poland from the east.

  • October 8, 1939

    Germans establish a ghetto in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland.

  • April 9, 1940

    Germany invades Poland, starting World War II in Europe.

  • May 10, 1940

    Germany attacks western Europe (France and the Low Countries).

  • December 7, 1941:

    Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and the United States declares war the next day.

  • March 27, 1942:

    Germans begin the deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Drancy, outside Paris, to the east (primarily to Auschwitz).

  • March 27, 1942

    Germans begin the deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Drancy, outside Paris, to the east (primarily to Auschwitz).

  • January 25, 1945

    Death march of nearly 50,000 prisoners from the Stutthof camp system in northern Poland.

  • May 9, 1945:

    Germany surrenders to the Soviets.