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  Japan invades China and starts World War 2 in the Pacific
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  Germany adds Austria into the Anschluss.
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  Fascist Italy invades and annexes Albania
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  Germany attacks Poland starting World War 2
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  France and Great Britain guarantee the integrity of the borders of the Polish state.
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  Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a nonaggression agreement
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  In 1940 the first crematorium in Auschwitz was put into operation and this sparked the revolt
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  Germany invades Denmark and Norway. Denmark surrenders on the day of the attack; Norway holds out until June 9.
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  Italy enters the war. Italy invades southern France on June 21.
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  In the early 1942's groups of Jews started being sent to Auschwitz to be murdered in the gas chambers next to the first crematorium
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  In the summer of 1942 after they killed the Jews in the gas chambers they burned the bodies
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  on December 9 1942 Some of the Sonderkommando prisoners tried to escape
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  They built four more crematoriums in Birkenau and they went into operation in spring of 1943
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  On March 9 1943 the prisoners tried to escape once again
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  In the summer of 1944 there were documents from Sonderkommando prisoners that there was a extermination and they secretly took pictures of the dead bodies in the Crematorium.
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  In autumn of 1944 they continued to exterminate the Sonderkommando prisoners slowly
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  In November of 1944 the extermination stopped
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  On October 7 they planned to exterminated a large amount of prisoners but the Sonderkommando resisted
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  On November 28 70 sonderkommando prisoners were taken to an unknown direction
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  The final 100 sonderkommando prisoners were there up until their final evacuation