Holocaust timeline 1940

25 January 1940	Nazis choose the town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz) in Poland near Krakow as the site of a new concentration camp.
26 January - 11 February 1940	Quote from Nazi newspaper, Der Stürmer, published by Julius Streicher - "The time is near when a machine will go into motion which is going to prepare a grave for the world's criminal - Judah - from which there will be no resurrection."
12 February 1940	First deportation of German Jews into occupied Poland.
9 April 1940	Nazis invade Denmark (Jewish pop. 8,000) and Norway (Jewish pop. 2,000).
30 April 1940	The Lodz Ghetto in occupied Poland is sealed off from the outside world with 230,000 Jews locked inside.
1 May 1940	Rudolf Höss is chosen to be kommandant of Auschwitz.
10 May 1940	Nazis invade France (Jewish pop. 350,000), Belgium (Jewish pop. 65,000), Holland (Jewish pop. 140,000), and Luxembourg (Jewish pop. 3,500).
14 June 1940	Paris is occupied by the Nazis.
22 June 1940	France signs an armistice with Hitler.
1 - 16 July 1940	Eichmann's Madagascar Plan is presented, proposing to deport all European Jews to the island of Madagascar, off the coast of east Africa.
17 July 1940	The first anti-Jewish measures are taken in Vichy France.
8 August 1940	Romania introduces anti-Jewish measures restricting education and employment, then later begins "Romanianization" of Jewish businesses.
27 September 1940	Tripartite (Axis) Pact signed by Germany, Italy and Japan.
3 October 1940	Vichy France passes its own version of the Nuremberg Laws.
7 October 1940	Nazis invade Romania (Jewish pop. 34,000).
22 October 1940	Deportation of 29,000 German Jews from Baden, the Saar, and Alsace-Lorraine into Vichy France.
1 - 30 November 1940	Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia become Nazi Allies. The Krakow Ghetto is sealed off containing 70,000 Jews. The Warsaw Ghetto, containing over 400,000 Jews, is sealed off.

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