1941 April Victory of Germany in North Africa. April 6 Germany attacks Yugoslavia and Greece. April 13 Belgrade occupied. April 27 Athens occupied. May 10 Rudolf Hess flies to Scotland. June 22 Germany invades Russia. Dec. 6 Russian counter offensive; Germany fails to take Moscow. Dec. 7 Japan attacks Pearl Harbour. Dec. 11 Hitler declares war upon the United States. 1942 Jan. 20 The Wannsee Conference on the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" in Europe. June Rommel defeats Great Britain in North Africa and captures El Alamein. Aug. 23 Germany's sixth army reaches the Volga near Stalingrad. Nov. 2 Montgomery breaks through at El Alamein. Nov. 8 Allied forces land in Morocco and Algeria. Nov. 11 Germany seizes the unoccupied zone of France. Nov. 19 Russia launches its counter offensive near Stalingrad. 1943 Jan. 3 End of the Battle of Stalingrad. April 19-May 16 Warsaw Ghetto uprising. July 10 Allied forces land on Sicily. Sept. 3 Allied forces land in Southern Italy. Dec. The Soviet armies approach the Polish and Rumanian frontiers. 1944 June 6 The beginning of the Invasion. July 20 Attempt on Hitler's life. August Russia conquers Rumania. Aug. 25 Liberation of Paris. Sept. 3 Liberation of Brussels. 1945 Jan. 17 Russia captures Warsaw. Feb. 13 Russia captures Budapest. Apr. 30 Hitler commits suicide. May 2 Capitulation of Berlin. May 7 Unconditional surrender of Germany. <106> 20 GERMANY Deportations from Austria and the Protectorate (Bohemia-Moravia) began in the winter of 1939/1940. On February 12, 1940, Jews were deported from Stettin. On July 31, 1941, Heydrich was charged by Goering with the preparation and execution of the "Final Solution". On October 14, 1941, the systematic deportation of the Jews from the Reich began. On January 20, 1942, the Wannsee-Conference on the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question in Europe" was held. From July, 1942, the selections for the gas chambers took place in concentration camps such as Auschwitz. On June 19, 1943, Goebbels declared Berlin to be free of Jews. An estimated number of 3,000 Jews, however, succeeded in surviving "illegally", until the end of the war.