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  • Wannsee Conference

    Wannsee Conference
    Was a meeting of senior government official of Nazi Germany, and SS leaders. It was held in Berlin suburbs of Wannsee on January 20 1942. They disused and coordinated the final solution, which is
  • Germans Destroy Lidice

    Germans Destroy Lidice
    Adolph Hitler personally gave the order of the destruction of Lidice in retaliation of the assassination of Reinhardt Heinrich in Prague. The village of Lidice was set on fire and the remains of the village was destroyed. German units shot all of the men in the village over the age of 16 and deported most of the women and children to camps in Germany. The destruction of Lidice became a symbol of the barbarity of German occupation policies and a rallying cry for opponents of the Nazi regime.
  • Deportation Of Dutch Jews

    Deportation Of Dutch Jews
    The deportation of the Dutch Jews began in the summer of 1942, German authorities began deporting Dutch Jews from the Westbork, Amersfoort, and Vught camps in the Netherlands, to killing centers , and concentration camps in Germany, and Germany occupied Poland. By September 3, 1944, around 100 trains have carried more than 100,000 people to auschwitz, Sobibor, Theresiehsadt, and Bergen-Belsen, including about 60,000 Jews to Auschwitz and about 34,000 to Sobibor
  • Stalingrad Battle

    Stalingrad Battle
    Stalingrad was a major battle in the eastern front of world war II, in which Nazi Germans and their allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad.But its now called Volgograd. It is often regarded as one of the single largest and bloodiest battles in the history of war.
  • Death Penaltys For Aiding Jews

    Death Penaltys For Aiding Jews
    Jews in hiding risked many punishments, also the people protecting them. Such activities like hiding Jews was capital offence. People could tell the police and not be prosecuted if they told the police by 9/9/42. Even people not hiding Jews got persecuted if they left there designated area. Polish people risked there and the lives of there family to help the Jews. Many family's even tried to help by giving food to the Jews.