Timeline

30.01.1933 Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany 22.03.1933 First concentration camp established at Dachau

Administration of the concentration camps entrusted to Himmler, head of the SS

Establishment of Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Mauthausen, Flossenbürg and Neuengamme concentration camps

Metaxas dictatorship

Annexation of Austria and Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia)

15.03.1939 Invasion of Czechoslovakia
5/1939 Establishment of Ravensbrück concentration camp for women
01.09.1939 Invasion of Poland, beginning of World War II

1 million French POWs sent to Germany for forced labour
1940 Concentration camp established at Auschwitz

28.10.1940 Declaration of war.
Greek POWs sent to camps in Italy.

6/1941 Invasion of the Soviet Union
12/1941 First mass murder of Jews in Chelmno, Poland
Establishment of I.G.Farben in Auschwitz Monowitz

German Occupation of Greece.
Creation of Resistance Organizations (EAM, EDES)

Wannsee Conference, implementation of the “Final Solution” regarding the genocide of the Jews. Establishment of Auschwitz Birkenau as extermination camp
3/1942 Fritz Sauckel assumes responsibility for the mobilization of foreign workers. Their number reaches 2.7 million.

First recruitment and transport of Greek voluntary workers to Germany

Deportation of political prisoners from Magnesia to camps in Italy

Revolt of Jewish prisoners in Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps
8-12/1943 Construction of underground arms factories
08.09.1943 Capitulation of Italy

2-3/1943 Protests against forced conscription of workers; withdrawal of German decree
3-8/1943 Greek Jews deported to Auschwitz for extermination
Initial deportations of political prisoners from Magnesia to forced labour camps in Germany

Massive bombardments of German cities and factories by the Allies

Multiplication of satellite camps attached to main concentration camps
06.06.1944 Allied Landing in Normandy
20.07.1944 Failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler
07.10.1944 Auschwitz Sonderkommando revolt

3-4/1944 Jews from the former Italian Occupation zone deported to Auschwitz
3-8/1944 German reprisal operations, Mount Pelion; Roundups in Volos; deportation of forced labourers to Germany
25.05.1944 Deportation of 911 political prisoners from Haidari camp to Germany

6-7/1944 Mass deportations from Pavlos Melas camp in Thessaloniki to Moosburg POW camp in Germany

01.09.1944 Last deportation of prisoners to Ravensbrück concentration camp for women
10/1944 Liberation of Greece
12/1944 December revolt in Athens

27.01.1945 Liberation of Auschwitz by the Soviet Army
1-5/1945 The Nazis evacuate many camps and force the prisoners on death marches
4-5/1945 Liberation of concentration camps by the Allies
08.05.1945 Capitulation of Germany

12.02.1945 Varkiza Agreement
4-12/1945 Repatriation of deported prisoners

01.12.1945 Foundation of the “Union of Prisoners of War, Forced Labourers and Missing Persons, 1940-1945” in Volos

Nuremberg Trials

Greek Civil War

Law on Compensation for Victims of Nazism adopted by the German Parliament

18.03.1960 Greek-German Agreement on Compensation for Victims of Nazism

Eichman’s trial in Israel

14.01.1961 Foundation of the “National Association of Forced Labourers in German Captivity, Magnesia Prefecture”, Volos
14.08.1961 Law No. 4178/1961: Ratification of Greek-German Compensation Agreement for Victims of Nazism

Recognition of National Resistance

Law on the Lifting of the Consequences of the Civil War

03.10.1990 Reunification of Germany

Agreement between the German state and German firms on the compensation of foreign former forced labourers

10.08.2000 Establishment of the Foundation “Remembrance, Responsibility, Future” (EVZ)

Compensation payment to foreign former forced labourers by Germany. A total amount of 4.4 billion € is paid to 1.66 million recipients

Compensation payment to 1,800 Greek former forced labourers via I.O.M. (International Organization for Migration).