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... Hungary's motivations in signing a pact with the Germans was to gain back all its territory lost in World War I.
1941: Manufacturers in the United States complain to the government that they are making do without steel in order to supply the British war needs, while the British continue to export steel to South American countries.
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... were improving. The day after the ninth of Av, after Friday prayers, two thousand Arabs attacked Jews praying at the Western Wall. One Jewish youth was stabbed in the back. The British Government refused to condemn the attack, leading the Arabs again to believe that the British supported their riots.
1940: Luftwaffe again raids southern England.
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... water. In general, the French police would only participate in roundups of foreign Jews, while the Gestapo itself would act against French Jews.
1943: An allied military government (Amgot) is set up in Sicily.
Higgins Industries Ad - July 1943
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1940: British Metropolitan Police to be armed when guarding vulnerable positions.
1940: The Swedish government agrees to transport German war material across Sweden to Norway.
1940: Swordfish aircraft damage the French battleship Richelie... |
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... Arandora Start, amelynek a fedélzetén 1500 személy volt, köztük ötszáz olasz, akiket Churchill "fasiszta-szimpátia" gyanújával Kanadába akart deportálni.
1940 July 2, VICHY GOVERNMENT (France)
Was formed. Marshal Pétain headed the government with Pierre Laval as the vice-premier. Laval believed in total collaboration with the Nazi regime.
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... and the Bible, for it was they, and not Jordan or Jerusalem, that made our mother country a holy land.
At the 6th Zionist Congress, in 1903, Theodor Herzl said the British government had offered Uganda as a Jewish state to be called New Palestine. British imperialism then aimed to use Jewish settlers for the colonial development of east Africa. Chaim Weizmann notes in h... |
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... LEON BLUM (1872-1950) (France)
Became the first Jew to be elected premier of France. Blum, a socialist, instituted the 40 hour work week and many important social reforms. His government, lasting only one year, fell over lack of parliamentary support for his financial program.
1936 June 4, PRIME MINISTER FELICJAN SLAWOJ-SKLADKOWSKI (Poland)
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... Luftwaffe He-111 bombers not having received the countermanding order attack besieged Rotterdam, devastating the center of the city.
1940: Germans take Rotterdam as the Dutch government arrives in London.
1940 May 14, NETHERLANDS FALLS
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... Thomalla "Architect" of Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka was killed by the Russian secret service in 1945. Stangl managed to evade arrest and fled to Brazil with the knowledge of the Austrian government He was finally arrested and sentenced to life in prison in 1970 but died of a heart attack the following year.
1942: The Japanese capture Monywa and Mandalay. The fall of ... |
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... captures Karlsruhe on the upper Rhine.
1945: The 3rd Ukrainian Front reaches the railway North West of Vienna, cutting rail link with Linz.
1945: A U.S. military government is established on Okinawa.
1957. április 5. ,,Ezeket az ellenforradalmárokat körmenetben kell bíróság elé állítani, halálra ítélni és kivégezni", jelenti ki Kádár János az MS... |
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