1941 ⟶ Germans Advance on Smolensk and Exterminate Baltic Jews
The Germans push against Smolensk, and in the meantime solid...
Year
1941
1942
🔥 Germans Advance on Smolensk and Exterminate Baltic Jews
The Germans push against Smolensk, and in the meantime solidify their presence in the Baltic states; native Jewish populations of the Baltic states are being exterminated.⟶
Eastern FrontBaltic StatesHolocaustExterminationNazi GermanySmolenskWar Crimes
🏭 Himmler Orders Majdanek Concentration Camp Construction
Heinrich Himmler visits Soviet POWs near Minsk and Lublin and decides to build the concentration camp near Lublin known as Majdanek concentration camp.⟶
HolocaustConcentration CampsHimmlerMajdanekExterminationNazi GermanyEastern Front
🇩🇪 Germans Capture Smolensk
Germans take Smolensk.⟶
GermanyRussiaEastern FrontMilitarySmolenskBattleWarfare
🪦 Bolekhiv First Aktion Massacre
Bolekhiv first aktion massacre – 1,000 of the leading Jews rounded up by list, tortured, and on the following day 800 of the surviving Jews, were shot or buried alive at a nearby forest. The re-discovered atrocities and testimony in 1996 lead to Patrick Desbois's research on the German method of "One Bullet, One Jew" extermination in 1941 and 1942.⟶
HolocaustBolekhivMassacreJewish PersecutionGenocideWar CrimesOne Bullet, One JewEastern FrontExtermination
😥 First Reports of Gas Used to Kill Jews Released
First reports in the West that gas is being used to kill the Jews sent to "the East".⟶
HolocaustNazi GermanyJewish PersecutionGas ChambersMass MurderWar CrimesEastern FrontExtermination CampsPropagandaWartime Atrocities