World War II Timeline Project

By madelynek

  • World War II Begins

  • Buchenwald concentration camp is opened

  • Flossenburg concentration camp opens

  • Evian Conference held in Evian, France on the problem of Jewish refugees

  • Mauthausen concentration camp opens in Austria

  • Munich Conference: Great Britain and France agree to German occupation of the Sudetenland, previously western Czechoslovakia.

  • Decree forcing all Jews to transfer retail businesses to Aryan hands

  • All Jewish pupils expelled from German schools

  • Germans occupy Czechoslovakia.

  • Ravensbruck concentration camp opens.

  • Beginning of World War II: Germany invades Poland

  • First Polish ghetto established in Piotrkow.

  • Jews in German-occupied Poland forced to wear an arm band or yellow star.

  • Germans occupy Denmark and southern Norway.

  • Concentration camp established at Auschwitz.

  • Period: to

    Anti-Jewish riots in Romania, hundreds of Jews butchered.

  • German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad

  • Armed revolt in Sobibor extermination camp

  • Last Jews deported from Terezin to Auschwitz.

  • Germany occupies Hungary.

  • Group of German officers attempt to assassinate Hitler.

  • Revolt by inmates at Auschwitz

  • Evacuation of Auschwitz; beginning of death march

  • Hitler commits suicide

  • World War II ends