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Collaborators 1940-1943 June 24, 1941 - Germans arriving in Kovno, Lithuania find that locals have already launched brutal massacres of Kovno's Jews. The SS recruits many to assist their killing units. June 26, 1941 - Croatia, a Nazi puppet state, orders 40,000 Croatian Jews put in camps. Two-thirds are imprisoned and killed. June 28-29, 1941 - A Romanian pogrom in Iasi kills nearly 10,000 Jews. A few months later, Romania initiates the deportation of 150,000 Jews to camps in Transnistria where 90,000 die. June 23, 1942 - Slovakia agrees to pay the Nazis a bounty of 500 marks per Jew to deport all Slovakian Jews. July 16, 1942 - Acting on Nazi orders, French police arrest nearly 13,000 Jews in Paris, cramming them into a sports arena - the first stop on their way to Auschwitz  |
