September 2, 1942:
- "The 10,000 Jews of Dzialoszyce, Poland, are rounded up by Gestapo agents and by Polish and Ukrainian police, then terrorized while standing in the hot sun all day.
Two thousand residents are executed in the Dolles Jewish cemetery.
The 8,000 residents who remain are deported to the Belzec death camp. - "In Oslo, Norway, Julius Samuel, the chief rabbi of Norway, refuses to go into hiding or to flee the country.
He is arrested and interned in a camp at Berg, south of Oslo."
"An energetic Führer addresses a crowd in 1942.
Such occasions grew increasingly rare soon after, as the Third Reich began to disintegrate.
Failure to achieve victory on the Russian front and accelerated British bombings of German cities plunged Hitler into growing isolation and depression."
"A prisoner at Auschwitz is left dangling on top of the barbed-wire fence after he was killed by machine-gun fire while attempting to escape.
The body was left in full view for hours on end to serve as a deterrent.
Prisoners were well aware that escape was nearly impossible.
Armed guards and police dogs patrolled the camp, and much of the fence was electrified."
"Zyklon B, the commercial name for hydrogen cyanide, was the Nazis' killing agent of choice.
Zyklon B was first used to exterminate the mentally ill under the auspices of the T-4 program.
In 1941 Soviet POWs held at Auschwitz were killed with the lethal gas, and by 1942 Zyklon B had become the preferred method for killing large numbers of people.
Within minutes after being placed in a sealed room filled with hundreds of people, the gas would kill every occupant."