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1943: The exhausted troops of 6th Army's southern pocket, having expended their last ammunition, surrender to the Red Army. The Russians capture Field Marshal Paulus and 16 generals.
1943: Eighth Army takes Zuara, near the Tunisian frontie... |
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... head of RSHA.
Willys Ad - January 1944
1944: The Russians attack towards Nikopol on the southern Dnieper.
1944: A U.S. Ranger battalion is wiped out at Anzio.
1944: British attacks on the ‘Golden Fortress' in the ... |
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... may withdraw its support for Otto Kuusinen's puppet government should the Finns come to terms.
1940: The Finnish 9th Division launches an attack with the aim of destroying the Russian 54th Division in Kuhmo.
1941: In Washington, the US and British military leaders begin secret staff talks regarding co-ordination of a common war policy against Germany.
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... been lifted after 900 days. The Soviet 1st Ukrainian Front launches an offensive against Luzk and Rovno. Hitler lectures all his eastern front army commanders on National Socialism as the Russians cut off 60,000 men in Korsun Pocket, 100 miles to the South East of Kiev. Army Group North's commander, Von Küchler orders the eighteenth army to pull back to the river Luga.
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... 1944: The British launch their main attack on the Japanese ‘Golden Fortress' in the Arakan, Burma.
1945: Himmler is put in command of Army Group Vistula by Hitler. The Russians isolate three German armies in East Prussia. The Red Army captures Kattowitz in Upper Silesia. Auschwitz concentration camp is captured by the Russians, but they find fewer than 3,000 surv... |
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... Kaluga.
1942: US destroyers torpedo three Japanese transports off Balikpapan. This is the first US surface action since 1898 but the Japanese landings continue undisrupted.
1943: Russians take Starobelskiy, near the Donets River in the eastern Ukraine, more than 250 miles to the West of Stalingrad. Hitler orders no surrender in Stalingrad. The offensive by ... |
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... 22, BLOODY SUNDAY (Russia)
Czarist guards fired into a crowd of workers, killing and wounding fifteen hundred of them. Bloody Sunday has symbolized the beginning of the end of the Russian monarchy's absolute power.
1939: A Nazi order erases the old officer caste, tying the army directly to the Party.
1940: Destroyer Exmouth torpedoed off Wick, Scotl... |
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1882 January 21, BILU MOVEMENT (Ukraine-Eretz Israel)
As a result of the pogroms of the previous year, the Russian students at the University of Khrakov formed their own pioneering Zionist group called BILU, for Beit Ya'akov Lekhu Ve-nelkha (House ... |
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Január 20.
337 - 361 CONSTANTIUS (Roman Empire)
Son of Constantine. Weaker than his father Constantine, he relied on his Church advisors and began a series of anti-Jewish decrees banning Jewish pilgrimages to Jerusalem, the circumcising of Christian or Pagan slaves, and protecting Jewish converts to Christianity.
1008 CALIPH HAKIM (Egypt)
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... North Borneo.
Packard Ad - January 1943
1943: Russians claim further victories during a 75-mile advance towards Kharkov on the Voronezh front, with the Russians claiming 52,000 axis prisoners on this front alone.
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