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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. |
| 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. |
| 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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