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Wartime Germany - Dates Flashcards

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Georg Elser attempts to assassinate Hitler

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November 1939

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France is invaded

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May 1940

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Nazi order to remove crucifixes from walls in Catholic Bavaria meets opposition

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April 1941

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Invasion of the Soviet Union; Operation Barbarossa begins

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June 1941

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Bishop von Galen publicly challenges the T4 programme

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August 1941

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Germany declares war on the USA

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December 1941

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The Wansee Conference

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January 1942

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German Sixth Army surrenders at Stalingrad (turning point in the war)

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January 1943

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Goebbels’s ‘Total War’ speech

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February 1942

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10
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Executions of Hans and Sophia Scholl

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February 1943

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11
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Operation Flash fails to kill Hitler

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March 1943

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12
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Axis armies surrender in North Africa

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May 1943

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13
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D-Day

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June 1944

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14
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Bomb Plot fails to kill Hitler

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July 1944

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15
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Dresden destroyed

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February 1945

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16
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Bonhoffer executed

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April 1945

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17
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Invasion of Poland

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September 1939

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Dispute between Frank and Himmler over deportation of German Jews to General Government

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1939-41

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By this time, racial policy in the General Government was controlled by the SS (Frank had been marginalised)

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1941

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‘Operation Reinhard’ (building extermination camps to send surviving Jewish ghetto inhabitants)

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1941

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Economic difficulties in Germany which led to the death of million of Polish Jews (foreign labourers needed feeding, thus killed of Jews so they didn’t need to be fed)

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1941-42

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Operation Barbarossa

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June 1942

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In Kiev in this year over a 2 day period, 33,000 Jews were murdered by the Einsatzgruppen

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1941

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Goering gave Heydrich (Himmler’s deputy) an order to draft a plan for a ‘total solution of the Jewish Questions’

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July 1941

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Himmler tells Rudolf Hess (commander of Auschwitz) that ‘The Fuhrer has ordered the final solution to the Jewish problem, and we, the SS, are to implement that order’

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mid-1941

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Wannsee Conference

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January 1942

27
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Killings in Auschwitz had been planned since this date (thus Wannsee not necessarily a huge turning point)

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August 1941

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Law for compulsory Sterilisation of the Mentally ill

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1933

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A-socials began to be sent to concentration camps

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1935

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Reich Office for Combating Homosexuality set up (by Himmler - 50,000 homosexuals arrested)

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1936

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45,000 Jews forced to emigrate due to anti-Semitism following Anschluss

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1938

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Kristallnacht (20,000 Jews sent to concentration camps)

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Nov 1938

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Aryanisation begins (Goering driven due to 4 Year Plan, excluding Jews from economic life)

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1938

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SS establish the Reich Central Office for Emigration (promoting emigration of Jews out of Europe)

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January 1939

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Euthenasia Aktion T4 programme launched

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1939

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Madagascar Plan draw up (removal of 4 million European Jews to Madagascar, eventually abandoned by Hitler in 1941)

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1940

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Einsatzgruppen carry out systematic massacres of Jews in Russia

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June 1941

38
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Hitler remarks that “The Jews with be hanged one after the other until Germany is completely cleansed”

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1922

39
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Date of Himmler’s appointment diary which states “meeting with Hitler about the Jewish Question: to be exterminated as partisans”

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18 December 1941

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Hitler’s ‘New Year Message’ (saying that Jews will be the ‘victims of their own plots to exterminate Europe’)

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1942

41
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Chelmo begin using Gaswagens (mobile gas chambers) as a result of Himmler’s influence

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Dec 1941

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