Wednesday, November 4, 2009

THE HOLOCAUST TIMELINE-PART-IV..



The Allies liberated Belsen Concentration Camp. Women, some still wearing their striped uniforms, prepare to leave.
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18/01/1945Nazis evacuate 66,000 inmates from Auschwitz back into Germany.
27/01/1945Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz. By this time, an estimated 2,000,000 persons, including 1,500,000 Jews, have been murdered there.
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04/04/1945Ohrdruf camp is liberated by the Americans.
10/04/1945Buchenwald Concentration Camp is liberated by the Allies.
15/04/1945British troops liberate Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp and free approximately 40,000 prisoners. It is reported that "both inside and outside the huts was a carpet of dead bodies, human excreta, rags and filth."
29/04/1945The U.S. 7th Army liberates Dachau Concentration Camp.
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02/05/1945Theresienstadt taken over by the Red Cross.
05/05/1945Mauthausen is liberated.
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29/08/1945The lists of the first war criminals to be tried at Nuremberg are drawn up by a 'Four Power' Commission of Prosecutors in London. Goring, Hess, von Ribbentrop, Dr Ley, Rosenberg, Dr Frank, Streicher, Keitel, Dr Funk, von Shirach, Dr Schacht, Sauckel, Prof Speer, Bormann, von Papen, Jodl, Krupp, Raeder, Donitz, Baron von Neurath, Seyss-Inquart and Frische are all named.
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18/10/1945The first open session of the International Military War Crimes Tribunal indicts 21 top Nazis.
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20/11/1945
The Nuremberg trials begin, with Goring, Ribbentrop, Hess, Keitel, JodI, Raeder, Doenitz, Streicher and other top Nazis on trial.
21/11/1945All the top ranking Nazis at Nuremberg plead innocent.
29/11/1945Films of concentration camp atrocities are shown at the Nuremberg trials.
30/11/1945Rudolph Hess causes consternation at the Nuremberg trials by announcing that he has been shamming insanity and amnesia all this time.
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14/12/1945SS personnel convicted of atrocities at Belsen and other concentration camps, are hanged.
Prisoners at Auschwitz are put to work building an extension to the kitchen, to cater for the increasing number of inmates.
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24/01/1944In response to political pressure to help Jews under Nazi control, Roosevelt creates the War Refugee Board.
25/01/1944Diary entry by Hans Frank, Gauleiter of Poland, concerning the fate of 2.5 million Jews originally under his jurisdiction - "At the present time we still have in the General Government perhaps 100,000 Jews."
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19/03/1944
Hungary's 750,000 Jews, which have so far remained unmolested by the Germans are about to endure a nightmare of mass deportation to the concentration camps as Eichmann arrives in Hungary with his "Special Section Commandos".
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05/04/1944A Jewish inmate, Siegfried Lederer, escapes from Auschwitz-Birkenau and makes it safely to Czechoslovakia. He then warns the Elders of the Council at Theresienstadt about Auschwitz.
07/04/1944Two Jewish inmates escape from Auschwitz-Birkenau and make it safely to Czechoslovakia. One of them, Rudolf Vrba, submits a report to the Papal Nuncio in Slovakia which is forwarded to the Vatican.
14/04/1944First transports of Jews from Athens to Auschwitz, totalling 5,200 persons.
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08/05/1944Rudolf Höss returns to Auschwitz, ordered by Himmler to oversee the extermination of Hungarian Jews.
15/05/1944Beginning of deportation of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz.
16/05/1944The first Jews from Hungary arrive at Auschwitz. Eichmann arrives to personally oversee and speed up the extermination process.
24/05/1944It is estimated that 100,000 have been gassed at Auschwitz. Between May 16 and May 31, the SS report collecting 88 pounds of gold and white metal from the teeth of those gassed. By the end of June, 381,661 persons, which is half of the Jews in Hungary have arrived at Auschwitz.
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12/06/1944Rosenberg orders operation 'Hay Action', the kidnapping of 40,000 Polish children aged ten to fourteen for slave labour in Germany.
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24/07/1944The Russians liberate Maidanek Concentration Camp near Lublin, where 360,000 people perished.
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04/08/1944Anne Frank and family arrested by Gestapo in Amsterdam, then sent to Auschwitz. Anne and her sister Margot are later sent to Bergen-Belsen where Anne dies of typhus on March 15, 1945.
06/08/1944The last Jewish ghetto in Poland, Lodz, is liquidated with 60,000 Jews sent to Auschwitz.
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07/10/1944A revolt by Jewish slave laborers at Auschwitz-Birkenau results in complete destruction of Crematory IV.
15/10/1944Deportation of Jews from Hungary resumes after a temporarily halt due to international political pressure to stop Jewish persecutions.
17/10/1944Eichmann returns to Hungary.
28/10/1944The last train transport of Jews to Auschwitz are gassed. These are 2,000 Jews from Theresienstad.
30/10/1944The gas chambers at Auschwitz are used for the last time.
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08/11/194425,000 Jews are forced to walk over 100 miles in rain and snow from Budapest to the Austrian border, followed by a second forced march of 50,000 persons, ending at Mauthausen Concentration camp.
25/11/1944
Himmler orders the destruction of the crematories at Auschwitz.
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