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1. Norway
German Invasion of Norway ... . Jews in Norway There were approximately 2,100 Jews in Norway at the time of the German invasion ... Restrictions on Jews initially were sporadic, but with the German invasion of the ... deportation of Jews from Norway continued intermittently. Fortunately, many Jews received advance warnings of
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2. Timeline of the German Military and the Nazi Regime
Invasion of the Soviet Union German forces ... responsible for all crimes. This myth of the German military
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3. Das neue Europa ist unschlagbar
German invasion of the Soviet Union had pushed nearly into Moscow, Britain was fighting to maintain its ... Propaganda map of Europe showing German territorial gains and offensive movements of its army, navy ... were to penetrate into the German industrial district and thus into the heart of the German Reich. 4 In ... polychrome map of Europe indicating German territorial gains and military movements. In the top right corner
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4. US Army patch that belonged to a German Jewish refugee
German POWs and to go undercover behind enemy lines. On June 18, 1944, Hans landed in Normandy as part of ... Maryland. The courses included methods of interrogation of German POWs and to perform undercover work ... 1944, six weeks after the D-Day invasion of Western Europe. The unit crossed the Rhine River and
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5. US Army technician shoulder patch that belonged to a German Jewish refugee
Maryland. The courses included methods of interrogation of German POWs and to perform undercover work ... 1944, six weeks after the D-Day invasion of Western Europe. The unit crossed the Rhine River and
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6. That’s how the Waffen SS is fighting
German recruitment poster for the Waffen SS featuring photographs of high ranking SS officers and ... strengthen the position of the SS relative to the army and German elites, eventually fielding more than ... butcher’s apprentice before joining the German army in 1911, rising to the rank of sergeant during World ... of Kursk and Kharkov on the Eastern front and the invasion of Normandy, and the Battle of the Bulge
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7. Looking Back, But Not in Anger
After the German invasion of Belgium in May 1940, Herbert was arrested as an enemy alien and taken to St ... forced labor south of the Dordogne translating German articles into French, and was given quite a bit of ... The Story of One who Eluded the Holocaust by the Skin of his Teeth ... Cyprien. He was transferred to Gurs in October 1940. In the spring of 1941, he was transferred to do
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8. Anti-British propaganda poster showing Churchill’s tentacles cut out of Africa and the Middle East
the German invasion and in Germany, where British armies were forced out of continental Europe. In ... northern half of France. After the armistice and occupation, German authorities began releasing propaganda ... Protectorate was taken by the Italians and Syria, and German forces briefly took control of the region. ... representing German victories over Britain in: Norway, Germany, Dakar, Mers El Kèebir, Libia-Egypt, Somalia
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9. Anti-British propaganda poster showing Churchill’s tentacles cut out of Africa and the Middle East
the German invasion and in Germany, where British armies were forced out of continental Europe. In ... northern half of France. After the armistice and occupation, German authorities began releasing propaganda ... Protectorate was taken by the Italians and Syria, and German forces briefly took control of the region. ... representing German victories over Britain in: Norway, Germany, Dakar, Mers El Kèebir, Libia-Egypt, Somalia
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10. Oral history interview with Lakshmi Radich
German invasion and the subsequent bombing of Rotterdam; seeing Jews arrested; the reaction of the Dutch ... Germans; her escape; her time in Norway after the war; her reunion with her father; learning of her mother ... Oral history interviews of the Bay Area Holocaust Oral History Project ... Lakshmi Radich discusses her activities in Rotterdam, Holland during the war; her memories of the
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11. Vidkun Quisling
Weserübung, the invasion of Denmark and Norway. The German invasion of Norway ... . There were approximately 2,100 Jews in Norway at the time of the German invasion. Among them were about ... since its founding in 1817. The King of Norway rewarded him by ... returned to Norway in 1929. He served as the Norwegian Minister of Defense between 1931 and 1933 as a
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12. World War II: In Depth
Poland's borders in April 1939. They responded to the German invasion of Poland by declaring war on ... Polish state. Invasion of Norway and Denmark The lull which followed the defeat of Poland ... occupation zones, with the Italians in the west and the Germans in the east. Invasion of the Soviet ... seeking redress for its defeat in the winter war of 1939–1940, joined the Axis and the German invasion. By
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13. World War II in Europe
on September 28, 1939. The Polish army is defeated within weeks of the German invasion ... pushing more than 600 miles to the gates of Moscow. A second German offensive in 1942 brought German ... turning point. After the defeat at Stalingrad in winter of 1942-43, German troops began the long retreat ... guarantee of Poland's border, declare war on Germany on September 3, 1939. Warsaw surrenders to the Germans
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14. Collaboration
of them died. Norway, Belgium, and the Netherlands After the German ... invasion of Norway in April 1940, Vidkun Quisling, a Norwegian fascist ... officials were vital to implementing the German-initiated policy of deporting Jews resident in territories ... deported nearly 80% of the Slovak Jewish population in cooperation with the Germans during 1942
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15. World War II Timeline
began on September 1, 1939, with the German invasion of Poland. When did WWII end in Europe ... Denmark and Norway. Denmark surrenders on the day of the attack. Norway ... Peninsula. With German forces in North Africa having penetrated Egypt, Germany was at the height of its ... Africa. The failure of the Vichy French troops to defend against the invasion enables the Allies to move
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16. Oral history interview with Gunnar Sønsteby
Gunnar Sonsteby, born on January 11, 1918 in Rjukan, Norway, discusses the Nazi invasion of Norway ... German oil storage depots; becoming the chief of all sabotage operations in Norway in November 1944; his ... Norway--History--German occupation, 1940-1945. ... Germany--Armed Forces--Norway.
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17. Jewish Badge: During the Nazi Era
? In September 1939, following the German invasion of ... time between the German invasion and the mass killing of Jews throughout the Soviet Union ... invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, the Jewish badge was introduced ... -Moravia and the Warthegau (the German-annexed territory of western Poland). In German
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18. 1940: Key Dates
German invasion of the Soviet Union. ... . April 9German forces invade Norway and ... Auschwitz concentration camp (Auschwitz I) outside the Polish city of Oswiecim, located in German-annexed ... the German city of Hamburg, an autonomous concentration camp. June 10
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19. "Final Solution": In Depth
genocide of the Jews was the culmination of a decade of German policy under Nazi rule and the realization ... policies of persecution and segregation targeting German Jews focused on the goal of expulsion. After the ... Generalgouvernement (that part of German-occupied Poland not directly annexed to Germany, attached to German East ... commonly called the Warthegau (an area of western Poland directly annexed to the German Reich
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20. Night and Fog Decree
activities intended to undermine the security of German troops. They were, upon capture, to be brought to ... concealed by fog and the darkness of night. During the summer of 1941, a large number of German ... troops withdrew from occupied France to participate in the invasion of the ... Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the German Armed Forces High Command, objected
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21. The Biological State: Nazi Racial Hygiene, 1933–1939
Ernst Rüdin, a psychiatrist and early leader of the German racial hygiene movement. Individuals who were ... ligation, an invasive procedure that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of women. Views from Abroad ... emigration of tens of thousands of Austrian Jews. The Nazi-organized attacks on German and Austrian Jews and ... Third Reich, a politically extreme, antisemitic variation of eugenics determined the course of state
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22. Julien Bryan
were fleeing the capital in the wake of the German invasion. Realizing ... during which he took film and hundreds of photographs of German people at work and at play, Hitler Youth ... US and consternation in Germany, as it clearly portrayed elements of Nazi German persecution and ... Introduction Julien Bryan hailed from Titusville, Pennsylvania, and was a graduate of
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23. The Soviet Union and the Eastern Front
plans to invade the Soviet Union. The German Invasion of the Soviet Union ... for the invasion of the Soviet Union. From the beginning of operational planning, German military and ... long-term expansion of the German "race." They also defined the Soviet system as the political ... rest of eastern Europe into Soviet and German spheres of interest. In accordance with this plan, the
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24. The Order Police
. Various types of police units deployed alongside the German military. Among ... According to the Nazi leadership, the Police Battalions had performed well during the invasion of Poland ... Poland. There, they joined other German occupation forces in the Nazi regime’s persecution of Jews and ... Order Police executed Poles for even minor acts of resistance to the German occupation. There are
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25. The worm in the apple
during the incorporation of Austria and the Sudetenland into the Greater Reich and the German invasions ... This memoir of the war period contains comments about the Nazi persecution of German Jews and the ... Norway; Askevold's military service in the Reichsarbeitsdienst and his activities in the German military ... Norway.
