On these pages you will find information and statistics about some of the many countries that fell victim to Hitler's quest for power.
In March 1938, as part of Hitler's quest for uniting all German-speaking people and for Lebensraum "living room," Germany took over Austria without bloodshed.
The Anschluss occurred with the overwhelming approval of the Austrian people. No countries protested this violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
In a region not known for its tolerance of ethnic or religious minorities, this small Balkan country emerges from the dark era of Nazi rule with one of the cleanest slates in Europe.
Bulgaria's wartime government refused to hand over its 50,000 Jewish citizens to the Nazis in 943 despite its military alliance with Germany. It was the Jews living in territories annexed by Bulgaria earlier in the war who fell prey to the Nazis.
The Nazis together with local collaborators murdered over 90% of Lithuanian Jews. All in all there are 200 sights of mass killings in Lithuania. One tenth of Lithuania's population was eliminated.
Rumania has had the distinction of completing its own Holocaust, without much prodding from their German allies. In fact the mass butchering of Rumania's Jews started well before Hitler's Final Solution. The methods of the slaughtering reached such an incredible level of savagery that sometimes even German authorities felt compelled the protest the barbarism.
After Germany and its Axis allies invaded Yugoslavia in April 1941, the Nazis permitted the fascist and terrorist Ustassa organization to found the Independent State of Croatia.
This split the former Yugoslavia into Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina