With over 60 million deaths, World War II has gone down in history as the bloodiest conflict ever. Here's a timeline of the most important events. (Source: DER SPIEGEL 5/2005)
1933
January 30: Hindenburg, the president of the German Reich, appoints Adolf Hitler as chancellor
1935
March 16: Germany introduces compulsory military service and embarks on major rearmament
1938
March 12: German troops march into Austria
September 29: Hitler, Mussolini, Chamberlain und Daladier meet in Munich. They come to an agreement that Czechoslovakia must cede the Sudeten areas to Germany
1939
August 23: Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty (the Hitler-Stalin Pact)
September 1: Germany attacks Poland; Great Britain and France declare war on the German Reich two days later
September 17: The Red Army marches into Eastern Poland
1940
April 9: German troops occupy Denmark and Norway
May 10: Germany begins the attack on Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and France
June 22: Ceasefire between Germany and France
1941
February 11: The first units of the German Africa Corps arrive in Tripoli
April 6: The campaign against Yugoslavia and Greece begins. Both countries surrender after a few weeks
June 22: Germany attacks the Soviet Union
December 7: Japanese attack on the American naval base Pearl Harbor in Hawaii
December 11: Germany and Italy declare war on the US
1942
July 3: The German-Italian advance in North Africa grinds to a halt at El-Alamein
November 22: The German Sixth Army is surrounded by Soviet troops at Stalingrad
1943
January 3 to February 2: The Sixth Army surrenders
July 10: The Western Allies land in Sicily
November 28 to December 1: Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin agree, during a conference in Tehran, to divide Germany
1944
June 6: Allied troops land in Normandy ("D-Day")
June 22: Beginning of the Soviet Summer Offensive. The Red Army crushes the German army group "Mitte"
July 20: Failure of the assassination attempt on Hitler by Colonel Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
October 22 to 25: In the largest naval battle ever the US-navy defeats the Japanese fleet in the Leyte Gulf in the Philippines
December 16: The last German push begins in the Ardennes and comes to a halt after a few days
1945
January 27: The Red Army liberates the concentration camp Auschwitz
February 4 to 11: Conference of Yalta: Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin agree that France should also become an occupying power in Germany
February 13/14: Allied bomb raids destroy Dresden (click!)
April 25: American and Soviet troops meet in Torgau on the Elbe river
April 30: Hitler commits suicide in Berlin
May 7 to 9: The German capitulation is signed in Reims and ratified in Karlshorst in Berlin, ceasefire in Europe
August 6 and August 9: America drops nuclear bombs on the cities of Hiroshima und Nagasaki
September 2: Japan surrenders
*May 12*
940: Sixty-two-year-old Eutychius of Alexandria, the Greek who wrote *Nazm
al-Jauhar*, a history, of what some may consider of dubious accuracy ...
3 comments:
Un articolul din DER SPIEGEL, ...
i-a oferit lui Tesu ocazia sa scrie un articol (mult comentat) la ZIUA in care sa-si exprime pompoasa si isterica sa indignare ...
Articolul din DER SPIEGEL incepe cu responsabilitatea Germaniei pentru the industrial-scale mass murder of 6 million Jews ...
insa continua cu prezentarea situatiilor care dezvaluie fara echivoc orgia in care au intrat si alte natii care si-au adus un aport indisputabil la actiunea de exterminare a neamului evreiesc, conceputa de nazistii germani.
Orgy of Murder Like a Lithuanian National Ceremony: ... When all lay dead on the ground, the blonde murderer climbed on the heap of corpses and played the accordion. His audience sang the Lithuanian anthem as if the orgy of murder had been a national ceremony.Iata citeva intrebari:How could something like that happen?
What led Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu and his generals, soldiers, civil servants and farmers to murder 200,000 Jews (and possibly twice that many) "of their own accord," as historian Armin Heinen puts it.
Why did Baltic death squadrons commit murder on German orders in Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine?
And why did German Einsatzgruppen -- paramilitary "intervention groups" operated by the SS -- have such an easy time encouraging the non-Jewish population to wage pogroms between Warsaw and Minsk?
It's completely undisputed that the Holocaust would never have happened without Hitler, SS Chief Heinrich Himmler and the many, many other Germans.But it's also certain "that the Germans on their own wouldn't have been able to carry out the murder of millions of European Jews," says Hamburg-based historian Michael Wild.
Articolul este scris cu ocazia procesului lui Demjanjuk:
"it's already clear that this last big Nazi trial in Germany will be a deeply extraordinary one because it will for the first time put the foreign perpetrators in the spotlight of world publicity."Iata si structura articolului:
Part 1: Hitler's European Holocaust Helpers
Part 2: Many Foreign Perpetrators Acted Voluntarily
Part 3: Germany Relied on Outside Help in the Monstrous Murder Project
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