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The Reich Chancellery meeting of 12 December 1941 was an encounter between Adolf Hitler and the highest-ranking officials of the Nazi Party.Almost all important party leaders were present to hear Hitler declare the ongoing destruction of the Jewish race, which culminated in the Holocaust.
The Reich Chancellery meeting of 12 December 1941 was held between Hitler and high-ranking officials of the Nazi Party. The meeting marked a decisive step toward the implementation of the Final Solution when Hitler announced that the Jewish race was to be annihilated.
The first attack on the islands came on December 12, 1941. A Japanese submarine, 8,000 yards offshore, broke the surface and fired star shell clusters over Johnston. [1] The US Marine crews of 5-inch coastal guns tried to find the submarine with star shells, after which the submarine withdrew. [1]
The five I-boats left Kure Naval District on November 25, 1941. [75] On December 6, they came to within 10 nmi (19 km; 12 mi) of the mouth of Pearl Harbor [76] and launched their midget subs at about 01:00 local time on December 7. [77]
The temperature on the Moscow front falls to −31 °F (−37 °C). [12] German attacks are failing. Japanese naval and army forces continue to move toward Pearl Harbor and South-east Asia. 5 December: Germans call off the attack on Moscow, now 11 miles away; the USSR counter-attacks during a heavy blizzard. 6 December
Over 80 years later, Dec. 7, 1941 is a date that still lives in infamy. The attack on Pearl Harbor launched the United States into World War II and left an indelible scar on the American psyche ...
List of shipwrecks: 12 December 1941 Ship State Description Admiral Y. S. Williams United States: World War II: The cargo ship was scuttled at Hong Kong. [50] She was later salvaged, and entered Japanese service as Tatsutama Maru. [116] Ariadne Moller United Kingdom: World War II: The cargo ship was scuttled at Hong Kong.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous words still can be heard about that day in a speech on Dec. 8, 1941: "Yesterday, December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United ...