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1935-1945 Holocaust
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Holocuast
Germany introduces military conscription. -
Rihnland
German troops march unopposed into the Rihnland. -
St. Louis sails from Hamburg, Germany
On May 13, 1939, the German transatlantic liner St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, Germany, for Havana, Cuba. On the voyage were 937 passengers. Almost all were Jews fleeing from the Third Reich. -
Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact
On this day in 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact, stunning the world, given their diametrically opposed ideologies. -
WW 2
Germany invades Poland, starting WW 2 in Europe. -
Ghetto
Germans establish a Ghetto in Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland. -
Einsatzgruppen
Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) shoot nearly 3,000 jews at the seventh fort, one of the 19th-century fortifications surrounding Kovno. -
25,000 Jews die
Einsatzgruppen shoot 25,000 Jews from the Riga ghetto in the Rumbula Forest. -
Germany declares war
Nazi Germany declares war on the United States -
Deportation of Jews
Germans begin the mass deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Lodz to the Chelmno killing center -
65,000 Jews
Germans begin the deportation of more than 65,000 Jews from Drancy, outside Paris, to the east (primarily to Auschwitz) -
300,000 Jews die
Germans begin the mass deportation of over 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center -
Germans complete deportation
Germans complete the mass deportation of about 265,000 Jews from Warsaw to Treblinka -
Rescued Jews
Rescue of jews in Denmark. -
Deportation in Hungary
Germans begin the mass deportation of about 440,000 Jews from Hungary -
D-Day
June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. -
Warsaw
Warsaw Polish uprising begins -
Allied Forces
Allied forces land in southern France -
Death March
Death march of nearly 60,000 prisoners from the Auschwitz camp system in southern Poland -
U.S. troops cross Rhine River
U.S. troops cross the Rhine River at Remagen -
