Adolf Hitler Biography and Timeline — Page 31

Court Martial

Hitler has General Count von Sponeck court-martialled

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1933-1945

Trial

Hitler has General Count von Sponeck court-martialled

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1933-1945

Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH)

Appointed Commander in Chief of the OKH

Dismissal

Orders the retirement of von Leeb after the latter wants to withdraw from Leningrad

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Immigration

Further immigration from Belgium & France is forbidden

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

International Agreement

Asks Japan to attack Russia, Japan agrees only if Germany successfully invades Russia

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Invasion of Russia

As early as 1925, Hitler suggested in Mein Kampf ("My Struggle") that he would invade the Soviet Union, asserting that the German people needed Lebensraum ("living space", i. e. land and raw materials) and that these should be sought in the east

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Invasion of Russia

Asks Japan to attack Russia, Japan agrees only if Germany successfully invades Russia. Asks Japan to attack Russia, Japan agrees only if Germany's invasion is successful.

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Invasion of Russia

The entire urban population of the invaded land was to be starved to death, thus creating an agricultural surplus to feed Germany and allowing the urban populations replacement by a German upper class. Spy Dr. Richard Sorge gave Stalin the exact German launch date.

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Luftflotte

Orders Operation Luftflotte to capture Crete by airbourne assault

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Night and Fog Decree

The SD was given the responsibility of carrying out the Night and Fog Decree, designed to crush resistance in occupied Europe

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH)

Appointed Commander in Chief of the OKH

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1941-1945

Sicherdienst (SD)

The SD was given the responsibility of carrying out the Night and Fog Decree, designed to crush resistance in occupied Europe

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Siege of Leningrad

Orders the retirement of von Leeb after the latter wants to withdraw from Leningrad. Leeb advises Hitler to withdraw from Leningrad to shorten supply lines, Hitler refuses

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Peace

Britain, the USA, China & 22 Allies agree not to make a separate peace with Germany

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Concentration Camps

During the Wannsee Conference the procedures of the elimination of the European Jews are discussed, shortly after this conference, the elimination camps of Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau begin their work

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Conference of Wansee

The Conference sets in motion the "Final Solution of the Jewish question". During the Wannsee Conference the procedures of the elimination of the European Jews are discussed, shortly after this conference, the elimination camps of Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau begin their work

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Final Solution

A surviving copy of the minutes of this meeting was found by the Allies in 1947.

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Final Solution

During the Wannsee Conference the procedures of the elimination of the European Jews are discussed, shortly after this conference, the elimination camps of Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau begin their work.

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Final Solution

During the conference, there was a discussion held by a group of German Nazi officials to decide on the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question."

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Final Solution

The Conference sets in motion the "Final Solution of the Jewish question".

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Massacre

"the result of the war will be the complete annihilation of the Jews". Celebrates his 9th anniversary of power

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Invasion of Russia

By the end of Feb there are over 1 million German losses. By the end of Feb German forces are driven 200 miles from Moscow

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Siege of Moscow

By the end of Feb German forces are driven 200 miles from Moscow

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Final Solution

By spring of 1942, Operation Reinhard began the systematic extermination of the Jews, although hundreds of thousands already had been killed by death squads and in mass pogroms

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Holocaust

Code name given to the Nazi plan to murder Polish Jews in the General Government, marks the beginning of the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, the use of extermination camps

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW)

Directs the command of the West under the OKW & the East under the OKH

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH)

Directs the command of the West under the OKW & the East under the OKH

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Operation Reinhard

By spring of 1942, Operation Reinhard began the systematic extermination of the Jews, although hundreds of thousands already had been killed by death squads and in mass pogroms

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Operation Reinhard

Code name given to the Nazi plan to murder Polish Jews in the General Government, marks the beginning of the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, the use of extermination camps.

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Operation Reinhard

During the operation, as many as two million people are murdered in Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka, almost all of whom were Jews.

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Operation Reinhard

Named in memory of Reinhard Heydrich, coordinator of the Endlosung der Judenfrage (Final Solution of the Jewish Question), extermination of the Jews living in the European countries occupied by the German 3rd Reich.

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Pogroms

By spring of 1942, Operation Reinhard began the systematic extermination of the Jews, although hundreds of thousands already had been killed by death squads and in mass pogroms

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Invasion of Russia

Army Group Centre would conduct holding attacks, Army Group North would capture Leningrad and link with Finland, and Army Group South would capture the Caucasus.

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Invasion of Russia

Hitler laid out the elements of the plan now known as "Case Blue" (Fall Blau) in Fuhrer Directive No. 41.

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Invasion of Russia

Hitler's HQ issues orders for the "final victory in the East."

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Invasion of Russia

The directive set the 1942 summer campaign's goals on Germany's Eastern Front.

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Operation Case Blue

Hitler laid out the elements of the plan now known as "Case Blue" (Fall Blau) in Fuhrer Directive No. 41. The directive stated the main goals of the 1942 summer campaign on Germany's Eastern Front: holding attacks for Army Group (AG) Centre, the capture of Leningrad and the link-up with Finland for AG North, and the capture of the Caucasus region for Army Group South

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Siege of Kharkov

The "Barvenkovo mousetrap" is sprung by Kleist & Paulus, 240,000 Russians are taken

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945

Declaration of War

USA declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania

Role range: 1939-1945 – 1934-1945