Capture of Duenaburg
Duenaburg is captured during the German invasion of Russia
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
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Adolf Hitler Biography and Timeline — Page 30
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1941
Invasion of Russia
The western front is broken & the Germans charge towards Minsk
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Siege of Minsk
The western front is broken & the Germans charge towards Minsk
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Western Front
The western front is broken & the Germans charge towards Minsk
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Conscription
Authorizes the employment of Russian prisoners in the German Army. All "racial Germans" are given German citizenship & made subject to the draft
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Operation Blue
Launches Operation Blue, to trap Soviet forces in a pincer movement west of the Don
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Operation Blue
Launches Operation Blue, phase 1 to capture Voronezh
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Siege of Voronezh
Launches Operation Blue, phase 1 to capture Voronezh
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Execution
Sixth Army HQ instructs shoot Russians with a cropped head & wearing plain clothes
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Invasion of Russia
After the pincer battles of Bialystok & Minsk are concluded: 324,000 prisoners, 3,332 tanks & 1,809 guns are captured
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Invasion of Russia
The Stalin Line was broken through on all important points
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Stalin Line
The Stalin Line was broken through on all important points
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Invasion of Yugoslavia
Germany occupies Yugoslavia and Greece
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Rule of Yugoslavia
Germany occupies Yugoslavia and Greece
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Conference of Quebec
The Allies 1st make plans for operation Overlord
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Capture of Smolensk
Smolensk is captured, 300 km outside Moscow but the Germans have lost 250,000
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Invention of Zykon B
600 Russian prisoners of war are gassed, 1st experiment with Zykon B
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Massacre
600 Russian prisoners of war are gassed, 1st experiment with Zykon B
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Siege of Kiev
Stalin evacuates Kiev, Hitler calls it "the greatest Battle in world history"
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Siege of Moscow
The Germans begin their final offensive to take Moscow
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Invasion of Switzerland
Heinrich Himmler discussed the suitability of various personalities for the position of Reichskommissar for the re-union of Switzerland with Germany and its subsequent Reichsstatthalter with his subordinate Gottlob Berger
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Operation Typhoon
Orders Operation Typhoon, an attack on Moscow
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Capture of Kharkov
Kharkov is captured by the Germans during the invasion of Russia
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Execution
The first extermination camps were being built: first Belzec, then Sobibor, Treblinka, Chelmno, Majdanek, and finally Auschwitz-Birkenau, the mass execution of Jews begins in early 1942
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Final Solution
The first extermination camps were being built: first Belzec, then Sobibor, Treblinka, Chelmno, Majdanek, and finally Auschwitz-Birkenau, the mass execution of Jews begins in early 1942
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Invasion of Russia
Temperatures in Russia begin to drop below zero
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Operation Barbarossa
Temperatures in Russia begin to drop below zero
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Felix
A plan to capture Gibraltar, the Canaries & Cape Verde. An operation to oust the British from the Meditteranean
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Invasion of Russia
1st cases of frostbite are reported in the German Army
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Operation Barbarossa
1st cases of frostbite are reported in the German Army
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Invasion of Russia
Russian prisoners amount to 3,806,865; the number of tanks destroyed or captured 21,391, guns, 32,541 & aeroplanes, 17,322
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Operation Barbarossa
The remains of 3 panzer groups are forced to continue against the Russian resistance
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Operation Barbarossa
A reconnaisance battalion is driven out of a Moscow suburb
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Operation Barbarossa
All German forces are held back by 70 degrees of frost
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Siege of Moscow
German forces lose more than 500,000 men, Hitler's biggest loss to date
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1922-1953
Siege of Moscow
The Soviet counter offensive hits the unsuspecting German army
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Declaration of War
Announces to a Greater German Reichstag he had declared war on the US
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Felix
Drops Operation Felix to concentrate on Russia in the Balkans
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Atlantic Wall
Orders the construction of the Atlantic Wall, from Norway to the Spanish border
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945
Capture of Kerch
The Russians capture the Kerch penisnsula. Hitler has General Count von Sponeck court-martialled
Role range: 1939-1945 – 1933-1945
Records, sources and methodology
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