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Timeline

(1952)

January 1939

January

24
- Göring entrusts Heydrich with Jewish emigrationOn 24 January 1939 Göring ordered a Reich Central Office for Jewish Emigration under Heydrich. The SS and police took over the expulsion of Germany’s Jews.
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- Uranium fission at Columbia UniversityOn 25 January 1939 physicists at Columbia University in New York carried out the first experiment in America confirming the fission of the uranium nucleus.
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- Plan ZOn 27 January 1939 Hitler approved Plan Z, a programme to build a fleet against Britain by 1948. The war cut it short after eight months.