Aktion T4
1939–1941 · Event
Hitler's backdated order launches the murder of some 70,000 disabled patients in gas chambers at six killing centres — rehearsal for the Holocaust.
On these timelines: The Holocaust, Germany, Master, World War II, Medicine & Public Health
More from The Holocaust
- The Holocaust (1933)
- The mass transports reach Auschwitz (1942)
- The Einsatzgruppen killings begin (1941)
- Operation Reinhard (1942)
- The deportation of Hungary's Jews (1944)
- The Frank family is arrested (1944)
- Lemkin coins the word 'genocide' (1944)
- Vrba and Wetzler escape from Auschwitz (1944)
Around 1939
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- World War II (1939)