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 | 1943-01-31 | Paulus Surrenders | Field Marshal Paulus surrenders the 6th army at Stalingrad and, referring to Hitler's expectations of suicide or holding out to the last man, says "I have no intention of shooting myself for this Austrian corporal". | Read about 'Paulus Surrenders' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Paulus Surrenders' | |
| 1943-01-18 | Warsaw Uprising Launched | The Jewish effort to prevent the remaining Warsaw Ghetto population being moved to Treblinka extermination camp begins. | Read about 'Warsaw Uprising Launched' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Warsaw Uprising Launched' | |
| 1943-01-14 | 1943-01-24 | Casablanca | A conference to plan the Allied European strategy. It was decided during the conference was that there would be no "cross channel invasion" in 1943. First an invasion into Sicily and then Italy would take place. | Read about 'Casablanca' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Casablanca' |
| 1942-12-24 | Darlan Assasinated | A 20-year-old French monarchist, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, entered Vichy French Admiral Franois Darlan's headquarters in Algiers and shot him twice. | Read about 'Darlan Assasinated' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Darlan Assasinated' | |
| 1942-12-22 | V-2 Development Begins | Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon. | Read about 'V-2 Development Begins' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'V-2 Development Begins' | |
| 1942-12-12 | 1942-12-23 | Winter Storm | Efforts by General Manstein to break through to the encircled 6th army at Stalingrad. Hitler's explicit order that the 6th army not break out of Stalingrad and Paulus's refusal to disobey that order doomed the attempt. | Read about 'Winter Storm' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Winter Storm' |
| 1942-12-04 | Zegota Created | In Warsaw, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz set up the Zegota organization to aid the country's Jews and find places of safety for them in occupied Poland. | Read about 'Zegota Created' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Zegota Created' | |
| 1942-11-22 | Sixth Army surrounded | General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th army is surrounded. | Read about 'Sixth Army surrounded' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Sixth Army surrounded' | |
| 1942-11-19 | Operation Uranus begins | Soviet troops are poised to attack the flanks of the German 6th army besieging Stalingrad. The attacks would strike the poorly equipped and thinly spread Romanian Third Army in the north and the Romanian IV Corps in the south. | Read about 'Operation Uranus begins' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Operation Uranus begins' | |
| 1942-11-19 | 1943-01-16 | Velikiye Luki | The Soviet capture of Velikiye Luki during the winter campaign of 42/43. This was an early example of German failure to support encircled troops that was later exploited at Stalingrad. | Read about 'Velikiye Luki' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Velikiye Luki' |
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