Existing comment:
1942:
Wannsee Conference: Nazi officials agreed on a plan to kill all the Jews in Eastern Europe as a "Final Solution to the Jewish Problem."
Germans began using gas chambers to kill millions of Jews.
30,000 Parisian Jews sent to camps (only 30 will survive).
U.S. moves over 100,000 West Coast Japanese-Americans to inland internment camps. Most were only allowed to take a single suitcase. Like the Hispanic-Americans moved during the 1930s, they suffered severe financial losses.
Brutal war continued in Russia where the Germans killed millions of Soviet civilians and unarmed prisoners of war.
1943:
The Russian army pushed the German army back and discovered evidence of mass executions of Russian citizens.
Race riots occurred in larger U.S. cities that have received an influx of southern black laborers.
A massacre of the inhabitants by German troops ends the Warsaw Ghetto revolt.
The German city of Hamburg was consumed in the first firestorm created by aerial bombardment. Thousands of civilians were killed.
American coal mines were taken over by the U.S. when a half million coal miners went on strike. |