1941 ⟶ Himmler Orders Majdanek Concentration Camp Construction
Heinrich Himmler visits Soviet POWs near Minsk and Lublin an...
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🏭 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 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
🚪 Majdanek Concentration Camp Opens
Majdanek concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager Lublin) and later to become extermination camp is opened.⟶
GermanyMajdanekConcentration CampExtermination CampHolocaustLublinPolandPrisonersPersecution
🪖 Himmler Orders Gypsies to Concentration Camps
German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies and "part-Gypsies" are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps."⟶
The HolocaustPersecutionGypsiesRomaniConcentration CampsNazi GermanyGenocideHimmlerSS
🕊️ Auschwitz Concentration Camp Liberated
Auschwitz concentration camp is liberated by Soviet troops.⟶
LiberationAuschwitzConcentration CampHolocaustSoviet TroopsWorld War IIHuman RightsGenocideEastern Front