Jewish men, women and children being rounded up for execution by German forces in Lithuania in 1942.
Courtesy of The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
In 1941, the Nazis’ persecution of the Jews became a genocide . In just under four years, millions of people were deliberately murdered at the hands of the Nazis and their collaborators. This mass murder became known as the Holocaust.
On 4 October 1933, it was decreed that all editors must be ‘Aryan’. Image shows a copy of the Editorship Law.
On 14 October 1933, just six months after Hitler was elected, Germany left the League of Nations.
On 10 October 1938, the Sudetenland was occupied by the German Wehrmacht and annexed.
In October 1938 the Polenaktion, the first forced expulsion of Jews from Poland took place.
On 3 October 1940, shortly after its defeat, France introduced its first antisemitic law under occupation - the Statut de Juifs.
On 16 October 1940, the Warsaw Ghetto was established.
