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In early 1942, Nazi Germany stood at the height of its power. Germany and its allies controlled most of Europe and even parts of North Africa. The SS had established special killing centers with large gas chambers, expanding the “Final Solution,” the mass murder of European Jews.
By 1942, three years into World War II, Nazi Germany reached the peak of its expansion. At the height of its power, Germany had incorporated, seized, or occupied most of the continent. However, also in 1942, the Allied Powers started to systematically bomb Germany.
It covers the measures Hitler took to transform a democracy into a dictatorship; the expansion of Nazi Germany in the years prior to World War 2; and its dramatic conquests, followed by decline and fall, during that war. Separate articles look in detail at World War 2, and the Holocaust.
Jan 2, 2019 · The three Nazi “death camps” or “killing centers” were infamous for their industrial mass killings and their ability to rapidly liquidate entire Jewish communities with the aid of gas chamber technology, thereby resulting in a large-scale “Holocaust by Gas.”
Beginning in 1938, the Nazis increased their territorial control outside of Germany. By 1942, three years into World War II , Nazi Germany reached the peak of its expansion. At the height of its power, Germany had incorporated, seized, or occupied most of the continent.
Jan 27, 2020 · At its peak activity in 1944, Auschwitz’s footprint on the area covered 40 square kilometres with sub-camps beyond that. Today, much of that property is in private hands, outside the control,...
The first mass transport of Jews noted in the camp records brought 999 Jewish women from Slovakia on March 26, 1942. Jews were deported to Auschwitz from Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Slovakia and Yugoslavia in 1942.
