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Period: to
Holocaust
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First Deportation of German Jews in occupied Poland
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A pogrom in Romania results in over 2,000 Jews killed
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Heydrich dies of his wounds
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7,000 Jews arrested in unoccupied France
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Newly built gas chamber/crematory II opens at Auschwitz
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Allies
They enter in Sicily -
Soviet troops reach former Polish border
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Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps
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Trials
23 former SS doctors and scientists go on trial before a U.S. Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Sixteeen are found quilty and 7 were hanged -
Trials
Twenty one former SS Einsatz leaders go on trial before a U.S. Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. Fourteen are sentenced to death, with only 4 (the group commanders) actually being executed. The other death sentences are commuted.