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Between April 1942 and October 1943, at least 160,000 people were killed in the camp. Spring — Holocaust: the Nazi German extermination camp Treblinka II opens in occupied Poland near the village of Treblinka. Between July 1942 and October 1943, around 850,000 people were killed there, [1] more than 800,000 of whom were Jews. [2]
July 5 – German forces of the 4th Panzer Army under General Hermann Hoth reach the Don River near Voronezh and become embroiled in the battle to capture the city. July 6 – The Holocaust: Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in an attic above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
The 2nd Army headquarters was briefly established in Berlin from Group Command 1 on 26 August 1939 and at the beginning of the Invasion of Poland it was renamed Army Group North on 2 September. [ 1 ] The 2nd Army was reestablished on 20 October 1939, with Generaloberst Maximilian von Weichs in command, by renaming the 8th Army , which had been ...
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Before the summer was out, all other parties had either been banned or intimidated into closing down (some were even intimidated into joining the Nazis), and the Nazi Party was the only legally permitted party in Germany – to all intents and purposes, Germany had become a one-party state with the passage of the Enabling Act.
From 1933 onwards, after the Nazi seizure of power, the Gaue increasingly replaced the German states as administrative subdivisions in Germany. [ 2 ] At the head of each Gau stood a Gauleiter , a position which became increasingly more powerful, especially after the outbreak of the Second World War , with little interference from above.
World War II began in Europe on 1 September 1939 [1] [2] with the German invasion of Poland and the United Kingdom and France's declaration of war on Germany two days later on 3 September 1939. Dates for the beginning of the Pacific War include the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War on 7 July 1937, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] or the earlier Japanese ...
August 23: Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact. September 1: Germany [o] invades Poland, beginning the war [p] September 3: War is declared on Germany by the United Kingdom and France, the Battle of the Atlantic and Phoney War begins; September 17: After the Soviet Union defeats Japan in Mongolia, they invade Poland as well