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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]
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.
Targets included industries, naval installations, oil storage plants, refineries, and communications centers in Germany, France, Poland, Belgium, Norway, Romania, and the Netherlands. The group received a Distinguished Unit Citation for withstanding heavy opposition to bomb a vital aircraft factory at Regensburg on 17 August 1943.
Germany and the Second World War (vol. 6): The Global War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Contributing authors: Horst Boog, Werner Rahn, Reinhard Stumpf, and Bernd Wegner. Germany and the Second World War (vol. 7): The Strategic Air War in Europe and the War in the West and East Asia 1943-1944/5. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
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.
The German Army, 1939–1945. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. ISBN 978-0-29-778032-8. Stone, David (2011). Twilight of the Gods: The Decline and Fall of the German General Staff in World War II. London: Conway. ISBN 978-1-84-486136-1. Wilt, A. (1990). War from the Top: German and British Decision Making During World War II. Bloomington, IN ...
1 March 1940 - 19 February 1942 [11] Hauptmann: Helmut Sorge: 20 February 1942 - 15 March 1942 [12] Oberstleutnant: Torsten Christ: 15 March 1942 - 30 March 1942 [13] Major: Claus Hinkelbein: 26 May 1942 - 4 November 1942 [14] Hauptmann: Hans Meffert: 10 April 1943 - 24 January 1944 [15] Major: Ernst-Günther Moeller: 15 December 1943 - 28 ...
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 ...