Third Reich
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(378)1942
January
March
April
- 05
- Directive No. 41On 5 April 1942 Hitler signed Directive No. 41. In the summer the Wehrmacht was to destroy the Red Army west of the Don and seize the oil of the Caucasus.
- RAF raids on Cologne and HamburgOn the nights of 5/6 and 8/9 April 1942 Bomber Command sent its largest raids yet to Cologne and Hamburg. The bombing was scattered and the damage slight.
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
- 22
- Brazil declares war on Germany and ItalyAfter U-507 sank five ships with over 600 dead, Brazil recognised on 22 August 1942 that it was at war with Germany and Italy.
- The massacre of Jews in StanisławówOn 22 August 1942, in a “reprisal action”, the Germans shot over 1,000 Jews in Stanisławów and hanged the Judenrat chairman and about 20 policemen.