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1933

July 14     Forced sterilization of German citizens with congenital disabilities
July 14     Germany proclaimed a one-party state
July 14     Denaturalization law
July 20     Nazi government signs Reich Concordat with the Vatican


1934

July 25    Nazi putsch in Austria fails


1936

July 16     Spanish Civil War begins


1938

July O6    Anti-Jewish economic strictures
July 6-15  Evian Conference


1940

July 10     Vichy government formed
July 19    
U.K. turns down German peace offer for recognition of domination in Western Europe


1941

July 01     Einsatzgruppe D begins operating in Bessarabia; 160,000 Jews shot by August 31
July 04    
Vilna Judenrat established
July 20    
Minsk ghetto established
July 24     Kishinev ghetto established; 10,000 Jews dead
July 25    
Pogrom in Lvov
July 31    
Heydrich to plan "Final Solution" of Jewish problem
July        
Killings begin at Ponary south of Vilna


1942

July 16     Roundup of Parisian Jews
July 19     Himmler: elimination of all Jews in Generalgouvernement by end of 1942
July 21     Mass protest rally at Madison Square Garden
July 22     Construction of Treblinka completed
July 22     Mass deportation from Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka begins
July 23     Adam Czerniakow commits suicide
July 28     Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) founded in Warsaw


1943

July 05     German offensive at Kursk fails
July 10     Allies invade Sicily
July 25     Mussolini deposed


1944

July 03     Minsk liberated; few of 80,000 Jews survive
July 07     Hungarian government halts deportations
July 08     Kovno ghetto liquidated
July 13     Jewish partisans help liberate Vilna; 2,500 of 57,000 Jews survive
July 20     Attempt to assassinate Hitler fails
July 22     Lvov liberated; 110,000 Jews dead
July 25     Red Army liberates Majdanek


1945

July 16     Potsdam Conference


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