2-10/12-40
First deportations from Pomerania (Stettin, Stralsund) to Lublin, Poland.

4-9-40
Germany invades Denmark and Norway.

4-20-40
Secret order by the High Command of the Armed Forces: Discharge persons of mixed blood and husbands of Jewish women.

4-27-40
Himmler directive to establish a concentration camp at Auschwitz.

4-30-40
First guarded ghetto established in Lodz, Poland.

5-10-40
Germany invades Holland, Belgium, and France.

6-22-40
French army surrenders. Marshal Petain signs armistice with Germany.

8-10-40
Anti-Jewish racist laws passed in Rumania.

10-3-40
Anti-Jewish laws (Statut des Juifs) passed by Vichy government in France.

10-16-40
Order for the establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto.

10-22-40
"Aktion Burckel": Deportation of Jews from Alsace-Lorraine, Saarland, and Baden to Southern France, then in 1942, to Auschwitz.

11-15-40
Hermetic sealing of the Warsaw Ghetto.

11-20/24-40
Hungary, Rumania, and Slovakia join the Axis powers.