Crimes and repression
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1924
1927
1928
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
August
September
- 01
- The bombing of WieluńOn the morning of 1 September 1939 Luftwaffe dive-bombers destroyed central Wieluń, a town with no troops or air defences. The first bombs hit its hospital.
- Operation TannenbergOn 1 September 1939 Security Police and SD Einsatzgruppen followed the Wehrmacht into Poland, carrying lists of names to “neutralise” Poland’s leading strata.
October
November
1940
1941
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
- 01
- The camp at MajdanekFrom 1 October 1941 the SS was to build a camp near Lublin for 50,000 Soviet prisoners of war. So began Majdanek, where nearly 80,000 people died.
- The Yom Kippur actions in the Wilno GhettoOn Yom Kippur, 1 October 1941, Germans and Lithuanians seized thousands of Jews in both Wilno ghettos. By 21 October the whole small ghetto lay dead at Ponary.
November
December
- 01
- The Stanisławów GhettoFrom 1 December 1941 some 20,000 Jews of Stanisławów were forced to move into a ghetto, which the Germans sealed off from the rest of the town on 20 December.
- The Jäger ReportOn 1 December 1941 Karl Jäger tallied Einsatzkommando 3’s executions in Lithuania: 137,346 dead, almost all Jews. He declared the “Jewish problem” solved.
1942
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
- 22
- Key eventThe Great Deportation in the Warsaw GhettoOn 22 July 1942 the Germans began deporting Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka. By 21 September they had murdered at least 254,000 people there.
- The Treblinka extermination campOn 22 July 1942 the first transport left Warsaw for Treblinka II. The next day the camp began operating; the Germans murdered some 800,000–900,000 Jews there.
August
September
October
1943
1944
January
February
March
June
- 10
- The Oradour-sur-Glane massacreOn 10 June 1944 a company of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich murdered 642 people at Oradour-sur-Glane near Limoges and burned the village.
- The Distomo massacreOn 10 June 1944 troops of the 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division murdered 218 inhabitants of the Greek village of Distomo and burned it down.
July
August
- 06
- Black Sunday in KrakówOn 6 August 1944 the Germans carried out the largest round-up of the occupation in Kraków. Some 6,000–8,000 men were held as hostages in Płaszów camp.
- The Baligród massacreOn 6 August 1944 the UPA unit of “Burlaka” raided Baligród in the Bieszczady and murdered dozens of Polish men. The victims' memorial lists 42 names.