The Grey Book / A collection of protests against anti-semitism and the persecution of Jews issued by non-Roman Catholic churches and church leaders during Hitlers rule

by Johan M. Snoek

In January 1939, at the First ordinary session of the Provisional Committee of the World Council of Churches, the Bishop of Chichester proposed that the Council create a special department to deal with refugee problems.

"He felt that the time had come to aid the entire mass of non-Aryans. He meant not only the non-Aryan members of the Church but also the others, albeit there being a special responsibility towards members of the Christian Church. Soon afterwards Dr. Adolf Freudenberg was appointed the first secretary of this new Department for Aid to Refugees." [252] <101>

III

DURING THE WAR

19 HISTORICAL EVENTS, 1939-1945

1939
Sept. 1 Germany attacks Poland.
Sept. 3-4 Great Britain and France declare war upon Germany.
Sept. 17 Russia invades Poland.
Nov. 30 Russia attacks Finland.

1940
March 20 Finland accepts peace with Russia.
Apr. 9 Germany occupies Denmark and attacks Norway.
May 10 Germany attacks the Netherlands and Belgium.
May 14 Capitulation of the Netherlands.
May 28 Capitulation of Belgium.
May 20-June 4: Evacuation of the British expedition force at Dunkirk.
June 10 Italy attacks France.
June 24 France concludes armistice with the Axis.
Aug.-Nov. The "Battle of Britain": Hitler tries to subdue Great Britain by
air raids.
Oct. 28 Italy attacks Greece.
Dec. 7-11 Victory of Great Britain in North Africa.

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.