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19th February 1942: President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, allowing the military to place Japanese Americans in internment camps

19th February 2025
Tagged as: America, Concentration Camp, Executive Order 9066, Internment, Japanese Americans, United States, USA

Executive Order 9066 was issued two months after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbour and primarily targeted Japanese Americans, leading to their forced relocation and internment during World War II.

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26th April 1933: The Gestapo secret police established by Hermann Göring in Nazi Germany

26th April 2024
Tagged as: Concentration Camp, Germany, Gestapo, Goering, Himmler, Holocaust, Law, Nazi, Nazi Germany, Persecution, Police, Repression, Secret Police, SS

The Gestapo operated with broad authority and virtually unlimited power, employing a network of informants and spies to monitor and report on suspected dissidents and political opponents.

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27th January 1945: Soviet soldiers liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp

27th January 2023
Tagged as: Anti-Semitism, Auschwitz, Concentration Camp, Germany, Holocaust, Nazi, Nazism, Poland, Racism, Red Army, Second World War, USSR

The advancing Soviet troops met some resistance from remaining Nazi troops in the Polish city of Oświęcim, but by 3pm on 27 January 1945 they had captured the Main Camp and Auschwitz II-Birkenau.

Tag: Concentration Camp

19th February 1942: President Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, allowing the military to place Japanese Americans in internment camps

26th April 1933: The Gestapo secret police established by Hermann Göring in Nazi Germany

27th January 1945: Soviet soldiers liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

12th September 1940: Prehistoric cave paintings discovered at Lascaux, in the Dordogne region of southwestern France

11th September 1978: Janet Parker becomes the last recorded person in the world to die from smallpox

10th September 1919: Austria signs the Treaty of Saint-Germain at the end of the First World War

9th September 1513: Battle of Flodden marks the largest battle to ever take place between Scotland and England

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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