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![German forces enter Aachen, on the border with Belgium, following the remilitarization of the Rhineland. [LCID: 70032]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/4d587734-0984-4f9f-9d7d-5e2b5e87dacc.jpg)
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第二次世界大战大事记
请对第二次世界大战之前和期间所发生的大事记时间轴进行学习。对欧洲犹太人的大屠杀正是在二战的背景下发生的。随着德国军队入侵并占领欧洲、苏联和北非越来越多的领土，其政权的种族与反犹政策日益激进，从种族迫害逐渐极化至种族灭绝。
![Deportation of Jewish women from the Warsaw ghetto. [LCID: 60566]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/13349d6f-20f3-454c-bc1a-8ffb19df74dd.jpg)
![Stretcher bearers carry a wounded soldier during the Battle of the Somme. [LCID: 2453747]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/647ba4e2-8fc6-4340-9d0c-21dd535eaf42.jpg)
![American Olympic runner Jesse Owens and other Olympic athletes compete in the twelfth heat of the first trial of the 100m dash. [LCID: 14523a]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/0623da87-2aa7-4e7b-bec6-b2285030315e.jpg)
![Illustration from an antisemitic children's primer. [LCID: 10640c]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/4c6348d1-d3e6-4be3-aae5-b12761f4f20a.jpg)
![A witness is sworn in at the trial of 61 former personnel and prisoners from the Mauthausen concentration camp. [LCID: 11724]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/d0f0988f-a458-4fb3-9ab8-cfafb09a6a07.jpg)
![German soldiers direct artillery against a pocket of resistance during the Warsaw ghetto uprising. [LCID: 34083b]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/thumb/8ffe37b4-0b4f-4966-9e03-838766fb9e89.jpg)
