Timeline
(Genocide events are indented) (back to top)
- 1939, Sept: invasion of Poland
- Sept: first ghettos created
- 1940, Spring: Denmark, Norway, Holland; Belgium, France ("Vichy" gov't; Madagascar Plan)
- 1940, Aug.-1941, Feb: "Blitz" on London
- Nov: Warsaw ghetto sealed; 50-400/day die of disease and starvation
- 1941, by April: Greece, Yugoslavia conquered; Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria allied
- 1941, June 22: "Operation Barbarossa:" Kiev, Leningrad, Moscow
- July: first mass shootings near Riga (Latvia, north of Poland)
- Sept. 29-30: Babi Yar massacre near Kiev, 33,771 Jews murdered in 2 days
- Oct: first gassings in sealed trucks at Chelmno/Kulmhof near Lodz
- 1941, Nov: Russian winter begins, Germans retreat
- 1941, Dec. 11: Hitler declares war on US
- 1942, Jan. 20: Heydrich's conference at the Wannsee villa in Berlin (Göring on July 31, 1941)
- 1942, Spring-Summer: German advances on all fronts, but no decisive victory;
- July 22-Sept.21: deportation of 300,000 from Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka (6000/day)
- 1942, Nov: Allies land in north Africa (7th); Soviet counteroffensive at Stalingrad (19th)
- 1943, Jan. 31/Feb. 2: German General Paulus surrenders at Stalingrad
- Apr 19-23 - May 16: Warsaw ghetto uprising
- Aug 2: Treblinka uprising
- Oct 14: Sobibor uprising
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