Liberation of Dachau
1945 · Event
American troops reach the first Nazi concentration camp, finding trainloads of corpses; some guards are shot on the spot.
On these timelines: The Holocaust, World War II, Master, Germany
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- 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 1945
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- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- World War II (1939)