1941 ⟶ Auschwitz Expansion Ordered
Hitler gives orders for the expansion of Auschwitz prison ca...
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🏭 Auschwitz Expansion Ordered
Hitler gives orders for the expansion of Auschwitz prison camp, to be run by Commandant Rudolf Höss.⟶
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📜 Göring Orders Heydrich to Formulate 'Final Solution' Plan
Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS general Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."⟶
HolocaustFinal SolutionGöringHeydrichNazi GermanyExterminationJewsGenocide
💀 Bogdanovka Concentration Camp Massacre
The inmates at the Bogdanovka concentration camp are massacred to quell an outbreak of typhus. Roughly 40,000 die.⟶
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🔥 Riot at Auschwitz Concentration Camp
A riot took place at Auschwitz concentration camp when the Sonderkommando Jewish collaborators came to understand that they also were slated for extermination. Over 450 were killed in suppressing the revolt, along with many others who escaped the camp in the melee.⟶
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🕊️ Auschwitz Concentration Camp Liberated
Auschwitz concentration camp is liberated by Soviet troops.⟶
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