1942 TIMELINE

Unsorted 1942 Events [Bottom]

JANUARY

01 - Declaration of the United Nations signed by 26 nations.
01 - |WW II ?| Soviet troops begins offensive against Finland.
02 - |WW II| Japanese troops capture Manila, Phillipines.
10 - |WW II| Japanese troops invade Netherlands East Indies.
11 - |WW II| Japanese troops capture Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
12 - |WW II| Japanese troops invade Burma.
13 - |WW II| German U-boats begin an offensive along east coast of USA.
13 - |WW II| Soviet troops recapture Kiev.
14 - Yugoslav government-in-exile signs United Nations Declaration on War Crimes
15 - Agreement on Balkan union signed between the Greek and the Yugoslav governments-in-exile
20 - |Holocaust ?+| SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich chairs to the Wannsee Conference to coordinate the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question".
21 - |WW II| German troops in North Africa begins an offensive.
25 - |WW II| Japanese troops land on the Salomon Islands.
26 - |WW II| The first american troops arrive in Britain.
31 - |WW II| SS Einsatzgruppe A reports a tally of 229,052 Jews killed.

FEBRUARY

11 - "Archie" comic book debuts.
15 - |WW II ?| Japanese troops capture Singapore.
19 - |WW II| Japanese troops capture Bali.
20 - |WW II| Japanese troops capture Timor.

MARCH

00 - |O.Poland|Holocaust ?+| Belzec extermination camp becomes operational.The camp is fitted with permanent gas chambers using carbon monoxide piped in from engines placed outside the chamber, but will later substitute Zyklon-B.
17 - |Holocaust| The deportation of Jews from Lublin to Belzec.
18 - US and Yugoslav government-in-exile sign lend-lease agreement
24 - |Holocaust| The start of deportation of Slovak Jews to Auschwitz.
27 - |Holocaust| The start of deportation of French Jews to Auschwitz.
28 - |Holocaust| Fritz Sauckel named Chief of Manpower to expedite recruitment of slave labor.
30 - |Holocaust| First trainloads of Jews from Paris arrive at Auschwitz.
08 - |WW II ?| Japanese troops capture Rangoon, Burma.
09 - |WW II| Japanese troops capture Java.
20 - |Holocaust ?+| First use of the gaschambers in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

APRIL

00 - |Holocaust ?+| First transports of Jews arrive at Majdanek.
20 - |Holocaust| German Jews are banned from using public transportation.
00 - USA ?| Japanese-American sent to relocation camps.
18 - |WW II ?| USA bombs Tokyo and Yokohama.

MAY

00 - |Poland|Holocaust ?+| Sobibor extermination camp becomes operational.The camp is fitted with three gas chambers using carbon monoxide piped in from engines, but will later substitute Zyklon-B.
01 - |WW II ?| Japanese troops capture Mandalay, Burma.
04 - |WW II| Battle of the Coral Sea. Japan loses aircraft carrier Shoho and USA loses USS Lexington.
04 - Foca comes under heavy attack by Chetnik and German forces
05 - Partisans leave Foca
06 - |WW II| British troops capture Madagaskar.
06 - |WW II| The american troops on Phillipines surrenders.
08 - |WW II| German troops begin offensive on the Crimea.
18 - |Holocaust| The New York Times reports on an inside page that Nazis have machine-gunned over 100,000 Jews in the Baltic states, 100,000 in Poland and twice as many in western Russia.
22 - |WW II| Mexico declare war on the axis powers.
27 - SS leader Reinhard Heydrich + is mortally wounded by Czech Underground agents in Prague. He dies jun 04.
28 - |WW II| German troops capture Kharkov.

JUNE

Paperback 10.47 I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years 1933-1941 by Victor Klemperer

00 - |Holocaust ?+| Gas vans used in Riga.
01 - |Holocaust| Jews in France, Holland, Belgium, Croatia, Slovakia, Romania ordered to wear yellow stars.
04 - Heydrich + dies of his wounds. [see may 27]
04 - |WW II ?| Battle of Midway ends with one american aircraft carrier (USS Yorktown) and four japanese (Akagi, Kaga, Soryu and Hiryu) aircraft carriers sunk. [Font class="da">u.07]
05 - |Holocaust| SS report 97,000 persons have been "processed" in mobile gas vans.
10 - Nazis liquidate Lidice in retaliation for Heydrich's death.
11 - |Holocaust| Eichmann meets with representatives from France, Belgium and Holland to coordinate deportation plans for Jews.
19 - NDH signs agreement with Italy to assume control in most Italian-controlled areas; the Ustasha agree to supply the Chetnik forces in the area, while the latter recognize Croatian sovereignty
22 - Pokret, or "Long march" of Partisans from Montenegro and southeast Bosnia-Herzegovina to northwest begins
30 - |Holocaust| At Auschwitz, a second gas chamber, Bunker II (the white farmhouse), is made operational at Birkenau due to the number of Jews arriving.
30 - The New York Times reports via the London Daily Telegraph that over 1,000,000 Jews have already been killed by Nazis. [font class="da">and jul 02]
10 - German troops destroys Lidicie in retaliation of the murder of Heydrich.
21 - |WW II| German troops capture Tobruk, Libya.
24 - |WW II| German troops enter Egypt
24 - Yugoslav government-in-exile signs mutual-aid agreement with US

JULY

01 - The First Battle of El Alamein [u.27]
02 - |Holocaust| Jews from Berlin sent to Theresienstadt.
03 - |WW II ?| German troops capture Sevastopol.
03 - |WW II| Japanese troops land at Guadalcanal.
07 - |Holocaust| Heinrich Himmler + grants permission for sterilization experiments at Auschwitz.
14 - |Holocaust| Beginning of deportation of Dutch Jews to Auschwitz.
16,17 - |Holocaust| 12,887 Jews of Paris are rounded up and sent to Drancy Internment Camp located outside the city. A total of approximately 74,000 Jews, including 11,000 children, will eventually be transported from Drancy to Auschwitz, Majdanek and Sobibor.
17,18 - |Holocaust| Himmler visits Auschwitz-Birkenau for two days, inspecting all ongoing construction and expansion, then observes the extermination process from start to finish as two trainloads of Jews arrive from Holland. Kommandant Höss is then promoted. Construction includes four large gas chamber/crematories.
19 - |Holocaust| Himmler orders Operation Reinhard, mass deportations of Jews in Poland to extermination camps.
22 - |Holocaust ?+| Deportation of jews from Warsaw to the new extermination camp, Treblinka, begins.
22 - |Holocaust| Beginning of the deportation of Belgian Jews to Auschwitz.
23 - |Holocaust| Treblinka extermination camp opened in occupied Poland, east of Warsaw. The camp is fitted with two buildings containing 10 gas chambers, each holding 200 persons. Carbon monoxide gas is piped in from engines placed outside the chamber, but Zyklon-B will later be substituted. Bodies are burned in open pits.
27 - |WW II| German troops capture Rostov.

AUGUST

00 - Soviets begin to accuse Mihailovic of collaboration with the Italians
00 - |Holocaust ?+| The start of deportations of Croatian Jews to Auschwitz.
07 - |WW II ?| American troops land on Guadalcanal.
12 - Churchill +¢ and Stalin meet in Moscow.
19 - |WW II| Failed allied raid on Dieppe.
22 - |WW II| Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy.
23 - |WW II| Beginning of German Army attack on Stalingrad.
26-28 - |Holocaust| 7,000 Jews arrested in unoccupied France.
31 - |WW II| German troops attack the british at El Alamein.

SEPTEMBER

09 - |Holocaust ?+| Open pit burning of bodies begins at Auschwitz in place of burial. The decision is made to dig up and burn those already buried, 107,000 corpses, to prevent fouling of ground water.
12 - Tito orders Croatian units allied with him to use the term "partisan"
16 - |WW II ?| German troops reach Stalingrad.
18 - |Holocaust| Reduction of food rations for Jews in Germany.
25 - Partisans reach Jajce
26 - |Holocaust| SS begins cashing in possessions and valuables of Jews from Auschwitz and Majdanek. German banknotes are sent to the Reichs Bank. Foreign currency, gold, jewels and other valuables are sent to SS Headquarters of the Economic Administration. Watches, clocks and pens are distributed to troops at the front. Clothing is distributed to German families. By feb 1943, over 800 boxcars of confiscated goods will have left Auschwitz.

OCTOBER

00 - |USA ?| Third big birth rise; 10 months after Pearl Harbor.
23 - |WW II ?| The Second Battle of El Alamein [u.nov 04]
05 - |Holocaust ?+| Heinrich Himmler + orders all Jews in concentration camps in Germany to be sent to Auschwitz and Majdanek.
05 - |Holocaust| A German eyewitness observes SS mass murder.
14 - |Holocaust| Mass killing of Jews from Mizocz Ghetto in the Ukraine.
22 - |Holocaust| SS put down a revolt at Sachsenhausen by a group of Jews about to be sent to Auschwitz.
25 - |Holocaust| Deportations of Jews from Norway to Auschwitz begin.
28 - |Holocaust| The first transport from Theresienstadt arrives at Auschwitz.

NOVEMBER

00 - |Holocaust ?+| The mass killing of 170,000 Jews in the area of Bialystok.
08 - |WW II ?| The Allies land in north-west Africa in Operation Torch.
11 - |WW II| German troops invade Vichy France.
11 - |WW II| British troops enters Libya.
13 - |WW II| British troops capture Tobruk.
19 - |WW II| Soviet troops begin counter-offensive at Stalingrad.
26 - Partisans convene first meeting of the Antifasistickog veca narodnog oslobodjenja Jugoslavije, (Anti-Fascist Council for the People's Liberation of Yugoslavia, or AVNOJ) in Bihac [until 27]
27 - |WW II| The french fleet in Toulon is sunk.
30 - |WW II| Fierce german resistance halts the allied offensive in North Africa.

DECEMBER

00 - |Holocaust| Exterminations at Belzec cease after an estimated 600,000 Jews have been murdered. The camp is then dismantled, plowed over and planted.
10 - |Holocaust| The first transport of Jews from Germany arrives at Auschwitz.
17 - |Holocaust| British Foreign Secretary Eden tells the British House of Commons the Nazis are "now carrying into effect Hitler's oft repeated intention to exterminate the Jewish people of Europe." U.S. declares those crimes will be avenged.
18 - At German-Italian conference in Görlitz, Hitler ?+ declares intention to crush all Yugoslav resistance [u.20]
18 - |Holocaust ?+| The allies declare that the crimes against jews will be avenged.
28 - |Holocaust| Sterilization experiments on women at Birkenau begin.
28 - Hitler raises Balkan forces to army group (Southeast) status, under General Löhr
30 - Jovanovic government resigns

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