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Holocaust

Germany · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1939–1942Date range
1Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1939

Adolf Hitler30 January 1939

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Prior to the beginning of World War II, during a speech (the six year anniversary of his accession to power), Hitler foretold the coming Holocaust of European Jewry

1942

Adolf HitlerMarch 1942

Wansee · Warfare / World War, 2nd

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

Names involved

Adolf Hitler

Provenance

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