• Hitler Comes to Power
  • Orgy of Sadism in Vienna
  • The Evian Conference on Refugees
  • Abandonment of Czechoslovakia
  • Kristallnacht
  • Hitler's Threat to Annihilate the Jews
  • Hitler Takes Prague
  • Voyage of St. Louis
  • Blitzkrieg in Poland
  • Blitzkrieg in the West
  • Invasion of Russia
  • War with Germany
  • State Department Confirms the Holocaust
  • United Nations Declaration on War Crimes
  • Madison Square Garden Protest Rally
  • Bermuda Conference on Refugees
  • Declaration on German Atrocities
  • Destruction of the Hungarian Jews
  • Liberation of Brussels
  • Russians Take Warsaw
  • The Fall of Budapest
  • Unconditional Surrender
  • Lila Millen Thanksgiving

Blitzkrieg in the West

April-June 1940 - Nazis conquer Western Europe, Hitler’s popularity in Germany reaches new heights. Jeannine Burk, in Brussels, Belgium, is eight months old.

The Times-Picayune, April 21, 1940 - BRITISH BOMB NAZI AIRMEN IN DENMARK, (AP) p. 1 (front page)Image description
The Times-Picayune, April 27, 1940 - BRITISH AND NAZI CLASHES SPREAD IN NORSE AREAS, (AP) p. 1 (front page) Image description
The Times-Picayune, May 10, 1940 - NAZIS HIT LOWLANDS, HOLLAND AND BELGIUM ARE BOTH INVADED, (AP) p. 1 (front page) Image description
The Times-Picayune, May 11, 1940 - INVADERS CHECKED; FIGHTING RAGES, LOW COUNTRIES, FRANCE BOMBED BY NAZI AIRMEN, (AP) p. 1 (front page) Image description
The Times-Picayune, May 11, 1940 - Editorial, He Mistook the Nazis For Gentleman, p. 8 Image description

November 14, 1940 - Warsaw ghetto is sealed; five hundred thousand
Jews are imprisoned.

Anne Levy: Warsaw Ghetto