1940 Germans announce they have established communication between Trondheim and Oslo. RAF attack Oslo airfield. The Lodz Ghetto in occupied Poland is sealed off from the outside world with 230,000 Jews locked inside. 1941 British air raid casualty figures in April: 6,065 killed, 6,926 injured. Bristol, Coventry, Birmingham, Belfast, London and Portsmouth all badly hit.

1940 King Haakon VII and his government are evacuated from Molde and taken to Tromso in northern Norway, from where they can continue the fight. 1941 British intelligence ‘Ultra’, intercept numerous messages giving a positive indication that the Germans plan to attack Crete. Another Brigade from the British 10th Indian Division lands at Basra, ignoring

1940 Himmler signs the order that initiates construction of Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. 1941 German troops cross the Egyptian border and capture the Halfaya Pass, forcing the British to pull back to defensive a line running from Buq Buq on the coast to Sofafi, some 50km in to the desert. The British also begin