Adolf Hitler10 July 1941
Sixth Army HQ instructs shoot Russians with a cropped head & wearing plain clothes
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Sixth Army HQ instructs shoot Russians with a cropped head & wearing plain clothes
Orders the execution of 3,000 Jews in Russia as a reprisal measure
Reichenaus 6th Army HQ orders executions to be left to the SD or SS
Orders, "..just retribution that must be meted out to the subhuman species of Jewry"
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
Mass gassing of Jews using Zyklon-B begins at Auschwitz
Orders the execution of 4,300 Poles
Orders the public execution of 33 Polish partisans
Quirnheim is arrested with Olbricht Stauffenberg and Haeften and is executed by firing squad in the courtyard of the Bendlerblock
Witzleben is executed at Plotzensee Prison after conviction by the People's Court
Hanged at Plotzensee Prison in Berlin
Stauffenburg & 200 others are executed for trying to assassinate Hitler
An SS report, a true pioneer in this area because of his new ideas
Executes about 400,000 Hungarian Jews alone at Auschwitz in the summer of 1944
Involved in the failed attempt on Hitler's life in the July bomb plot
Executed after being found guilty by a Peoples Court
Execution of Joseph Kramer
Executedby the Nazis, made to appear as the result of an Allied bombing raid
Himmler signs an armistice, Hitler executes Fegelein because of his links with Himmler
Swallows poison hours before his scheduled execution
Executed for planning a war of aggression, war crimes & crimes against humanity
1st of the condemned Nazis to hang at Nuremberg
Tried & found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg
Hanged in Moscow for attrocities committed behind the estaern fron in 1941
Executed by the Polish authorities for war crimes
Found guilty by a Greek Court of war crimes & executed
Found guilty by a Greek Court of war crimes & executed
Hoess is executed for his part played in the slaughter at Auschwitz
Executed by the Polish authorities for war crimes
Executed by the Polish authorities for war crimes
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