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Between April 1942 and October 1943, at least 160,000 people were killed in the camp. Spring — Holocaust: the Nazi German extermination camp Treblinka II opens in occupied Poland near the village of Treblinka. Between July 1942 and October 1943, around 850,000 people were killed there, [1] more than 800,000 of whom were Jews. [2]
The German Generals Talk. New York: Morrow. ISBN 0688060129. Liedtke, Gregory (2016). Enduring the Whirlwind: The German Army and the Russo-German War 1941–1943. Helion and Company. ISBN 978-0-313-39592-5. Mercatante, Steven (2012). Why Germany Nearly Won: A New History of the Second World War in Europe. Praeger. ISBN 978-1910777756.
A German fighter-bomber flying at 20,000 feet dropped a 500lb bomb into the centre of the English city of Bristol, killing 45 and wounding 56 people. 1942 Suō-nada Typhoon, a violence 935 to 942 hectopascal level, violence wind and tidal wave hit around Suō-nada , Yatsushiro Sea , Ariake Sea , southwestern Honshu and Kyushu Island , Japan.
3: Second Battle of El Alamein ends – German forces under Erwin Rommel are forced to retreat during the night. American victory over the Japanese in Guadalcanal in the Koli Point action. 5: German III Panzer Corps and Romanian 2nd Mountain Division capture the town of Alagir, which is the furthest south the Axis would reach on the Eastern Front.
In referring to the entire period between 1871 and 1945, the partially translated English phrase "German Reich" (/-ˈ r aɪ k /) is applied by historians in formal contexts; [3] although in common English usage this state was and is known simply as Germany, the English term "German Empire" is reserved to denote the German state between 1871 and 1918.
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Listen, Germany! is a published collection of letters by exiled German author Thomas Mann to his former country during World War II. [1] Originally published in 1943 by Alfred A. Knopf Inc., the collection contains twenty-five letters that were read over long and medium wave radio broadcasts by the BBC German Service into Nazi Germany, as part of the Allied propaganda effort, from October 1940 ...
The Luftwaffe lacked an effective air defence system early in the war. Allied daylight actions over German controlled territory were sparse in 1939–1940. The responsibility of the defence of German air space fell to the Luftgaukommandos (air district commands), which controlled the anti-aircraft artillery (AAA), the civilian Aircraft Warning Service, and fighter forces assigned to air ...