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Rationing begins in Britain
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Oswiecim, Poland is chosen as a site for Auschwitz, a new concentration camp
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1,000 German jews are deported from Stettin and other east German cities to the Lublin District
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Finland signs a peace treaty with Soviet Union
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Nazis invade Denmark and Norway
Denmark jew population - 8,000
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The Lodz ghetto is sealed off from the outside world with 230,000 jews trapped inside
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Rudolf Hoss, a Nazi German SS-Obersturmbannfuhrer, is chosen as the commandant of Auschwitz
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Nazis invade France, Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg
France - 350,000 jews
Belgium - 65,000 jews
Holland - 140,000 jews
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Holland surrenders to the Nazis
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Evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk
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Belgium surrenders to the Nazis
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Nazis begin to bomb Paris
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Norway surrenders to the Nazis. Italy declares war on Britain and France
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Germans enter Paris
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France signs an armistice with Nazi Germany
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General Charles de Gaulle becomes leader of the Free French
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The Madagascar Plan is proposed
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The Battle of Britain begins
A military campaign where the Royal Air Force defended the UK against the German Air Force til the end of June -
Soviets occupy Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia
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Italy occupies British Somaliland in East Africa
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Germany begins bombing airfields and factories in England
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Hitler declares a blockade on the British Isles.
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Great Britain begins bombing Berlin
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Operation Sea Lion, a Nazi invasion on Britain, occurs
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Germans begin a heavy air raid on Britain