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25/01/1940 |
Nazis choose the town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in Poland near Krakow as site of new concentration camp. |
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12/02/1940
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First deportation of German Jews into occupied Poland. |
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| 27/04/1940 |
Himmler signs the order that initiates construction of Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. |
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30/04/1940 |
The Lodz Ghetto in occupied Poland is sealed off from the outside world with 230,000 Jews locked inside. |
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01/05/1940 |
Rudolf Höss is chosen to be kommandant of Auschwitz. |
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15/06/1940 |
The Germans open Auschwitz concentration camp, officially to provide 100,000 labour force for I.G Farben factory. |
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17/07/1940 |
The first anti-Jewish measures are taken in Vichy France. |
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08/08/1940 |
Romania introduces anti-Jewish measures restricting education and employment, then later begins "Romanianization" of Jewish businesses. |
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28/08/1940 |
Vichy French radio announces that laws protecting Jews in France have been dropped. |
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03/10/1940 |
Vichy France passes its own version of the anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws. |
| 09/10/1940 |
Dutch decree, bans Jews and ‘half-Jews’ from public employment. |
| 22/10/1940 |
Deportation of 29,000 German Jews from Baden, the Saar, and Alsace-Lorraine into Vichy France. |
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15/11/1940 |
The Warsaw Ghetto, containing over 400,000 Jews, is sealed off. |
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