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Tag : Germany

1943-05-07Bizerte falls

Infantry from the American II corp continue their advance to the north and enter Bizerte. Germany resistance in North Africa has effectively ended.

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1943-04-30Operation Mincemeat

The RN submarine Seraph deposits a corpse containing misleading documents that helped to convince the German high command that the Allies planned to invade Greece and Sardinia in 1943 instead of Sicily, the actual objective.

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1943-04-191943-05-16Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The Jewish resistance which rose to try and prevent the deportation of the remaining Jews in the Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka extermination camp. The poorly armed and supplied resistance was crushed by German troops.

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1943-04-07Terebovl Massacre

The 1100 Jewish residents of Terebovl, Ukraine are forced to undress to their underwear, marched to the nearby village of Plebanivka and shot.

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1943-03-29Gabes captured

The 2nd New Zealand division captures Gabes in Tunisia. "When we were about ten yards away we had reached the top of the slit trench and we killed any of the survivors"

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1943-03-22Khatyn massacre

The German 118th Schutzmannschaft battalion, with the participation of Ukrainian and Belarusian collaborators, murder 149 people, including 75 children, in the Belarusian village of Khatyn.

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1943-03-131943-03-14Krakow Ghetto Liquidated

Under the command of Amon Gth the Krakow Ghetto is liquidated. Those deemed unfit for work, some 2,000 Jews, were killed in the streets of the ghetto. Any remaining were sent to Auschwitz.

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1943-02-27Rosenstrasse Protest

The Rosenstrasse protest was a nonviolent protest carried out by the non-Jewish ("Aryan") wives and relatives of Jewish men who had been arrested for deportation. The protests escalated until the men were released.

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1943-02-191943-02-25Kasserine Pass

Significant as the first large-scale meeting of American and German forces in World War II, the untested and poorly-led American troops suffered heavy casualties and were pushed back over 80 km from their positions west of Faid Pass.

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1943-02-191943-03-15Third Battle of Kharkov

A German counter attack led by Field Marshel Erich von Manstein effectively destroys 52 Soviet divisions and recaptures Kharkov and Belgorod. The fall of Belgorod creates the salient which would be the focus of the Battle of Kursk.

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