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Holocaust Timeline

By YeOlHealer

  • Nazis Come to Power

    Nazis Come to Power
    The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.

  • World War II

    World War II
    World War II began on September 1, 1939. Germany invaded Poland, triggering a treaty-mandated Anglo-French declaration of war on Germany. On September 17, 1939, the Soviet army occupied the eastern half of Poland. Lemkin fled Poland, escaping across the Soviet Union and eventually arriving in the United States.

  • A crime without a name

    A crime without a name
    Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. As the German forces advanced further east, the military carried out atrocities that moved British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to state in August 1941: “We are in the presence of a crime without a name.”