WWII TIMELINE (2024) by Jordyn Meyenberg

1889

jmeyenberg — 2022-04-03 02:21:07 UTC

Adolf Hitler is born in Austria.

January 20, 1933

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Hitler was named chancellor of Germany.

1935

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Jewish-owned businesses, and stripping Jewish lawyers and doctors of their clients. Under the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, anyone with three or four Jewish grandparents was considered a Jew, while those with two Jewish grandparents were designated Mischlinge (half-breeds).

Germany violated the Treaty of Versailles by creating a military draft and building up the nation's weapons arsenal.

November, 1938

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German synagogues were burned and windows in Jewish shops were smashed

Fall of 1939

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beginning in the fall of 1939, Nazi officials selected around 70,000 Germans institutionalized for mental illness or disabilities to be gassed to death in the so-called euthanasia program.

August of 1941

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Nazis used a pesticide called Zyklon-B to gas 500 Soviet prisoners of war. Nazi leaders placed a huge order for the gas, a sign of the coming Holocaust.

Late 1941

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Germans began transporting huge numbers of people from the ghettos in Poland to the concentration camps.

July 31, 1941

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One of Hitler's top commanders wrote about the need for a "final solution" to "the Jewish question."

September of 1941

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Every person designated as a Jew in German territory was marked with a yellow star.

February 19, 1942

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The beginning of Japanese-American Internment in the US.

Summer - Fall of 1942

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The heaviest deportations took place during the summer and fall of 1942, when more than 300,000 people were deported from the Warsaw Ghetto alone.

Summer of 1944

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Germany was beginning to lose the war, a large part of Hungary’s Jewish population was deported to Auschwitz. As many as 12,000 Jews were killed every day.

Spring of 1945

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German leadership was suffering from internal conflict.

September 2, 1945

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Japan surrenders, officially ending WWII on the Pacific front.

1945

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The Nuremberg Trials began to punish those who participated in the perpetuation of the Holocaust.

The United Nations were formed to promote world peace.

1953

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The German government started paying Jewish people for the crimes that they had committed.

1948

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the land of Israel was officially established

1933

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In 1933, Jews in Germany numbered around 525,000

September of 1939

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the german army occupied the western half of poland. they took polish jews out of their homes and cold bloodedly murder them.

July 26, 1945

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Allies issued the Potsdam Declaration: surrender or face utter destruction, which Japan ignored.

August 6, 1945

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The bombing of Hiroshima, Japan by the Allied Nations.

August 9, 1945

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The Bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, which led to Japan's surrender.

1934

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President Paul von Hindenburg dies in 1934. Hitler then anointed himself as “Fuhrer,” becoming Germany’s supreme ruler.

March 17, 1942

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The first mass gassings began at the camp of Belzec on March 17, 1942.

May 8, 1945

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The following day, he committed suicide. Germany’s formal surrender in World War II came barely a week later.

Late 1940s

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There were lots of refugees and they had been denounced by their non-Jewish neighbors

1918

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Germany lost WWI to the U.S.

1919

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All of the blame for WWI was placed on the Germans in the Treaty of Versailles.

1933-1939

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From 1933 to 1939, hundreds of thousands of Jews who were able to leave Germany did, while those who remained lived in a constant state of uncertainty and fear.

By 1945

jmeyenberg — 2024-04-23 12:33:08 UTC

some 275,000 people deemed handicapped from all over Europe had been killed. In hindsight, it seems clear that the euthanasia program functioned as a pilot for the Holocaust.

June of 1941

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Killings have been ongoing at concentration camp of Auschwitz

1942-1945

jmeyenberg — 2024-04-23 12:35:00 UTC

Jews were deported to the camps from all over Europe.

April 29-30, 1945

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In his last will, dictated in a German bunker on April 29, Hitler blamed the war on “international Jewry and its helpers.

September 1, 1939

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Germany invaded Poland, which triggered the beginning of WWII.

December 1, 1941

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Japan declared war on the US. They bombed Pearl Harbor less than one week later.

1940

jmeyenberg — 2024-04-29 18:20:13 UTC

The Battle of Britain turned the tide of the war and halted German advances through Western Europe.

April 28, 1945

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Mussolini was captured while trying to escape to Switzerland. He was killed the next day, which led to Italy's surrender.