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... "a Jewish conspiracy" and a nation-wide pogrom was organized by the German government. Fifty thousand Jews were arrested and taken to concentration camps, five hundred synagogues were destroyed and the Jewish community of Germany was forced to pay one billion reichmarks ($400,000,000) for the damage.
1941 November 9, CHAIM WEIZMANN
Again demanded that the Britis... |
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... - November 1942
1942: The Italian 20th Motorised Corps is destroyed. Rommel re-issues his orders for retreat with only 12 tanks left. 10,724 Axis prisoners are taken by the British, including nine generals.
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... Germans are ordered to enroll in Volksturm on pain of court-martial.
1944: The United States 28th Division is ordered to clear the Germans out of the Hurtgen Forest and is nearly destroyed in the attempt.
1944: German forces manage to stop the Russians at Kraisevo, enabling the Second Panzer Army to establish a firm line west of Belgrade.
1944: The... |
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... 1943
1944: The Debrecen counter attacks end with the Germans claiming that they have inflicted 25,000 casualties and destroyed 600 tanks. However, this doesn't hinder the Red Army begins a major offensive in to Hungary.
1944: The gas chambers at... |
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... Walcheren.
1944: Orders are given by the Germans and Quisling regime to evacuate the entire population of Finnmark east of Lyngen, and all houses and installations are to be destroyed. More than 10,000 houses are burnt, and 40-45,000 people are forced southwards. About 25,000 manage to hide, or escape during the operation.
1944: The Germans begin to evacuate ... |
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1944: U.S. B-29 Superfortresses pound Formosa and Okinawa. The Formosa bombardment lasts seven days, during which over 650 Japanese planes are reported as destroyed.
1945 October 10, ATLIT (Eretz-Israel)
In a daring raid, the Palmach freed 208 "illegal" im... |
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... COKER
(No. 2 of 'Four Quartets')
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In my beginning is my end. In succession
Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended,
Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place
Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass.
Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires,
Old fires to ashes, and ... |
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... complete the evacuation of the island of Corsica.
1943: The first of two heavy raids by a US Navy Task Force against Wake Island, with 61 Japanese aircraft being reported as destroyed.
Army Air Force Ad - October 1944
1944: The Canadians enter Holland.
1944: The First Baltic Front begins an offensive South of Riga... |
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... complete the evacuation of the island of Corsica.
1943: The first of two heavy raids by a US Navy Task Force against Wake Island, with 61 Japanese aircraft being reported as destroyed.
Army Air Force Ad - October 1944
1944: The Cana... |
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... army attacked after the local garrison fled to the castle, leaving the Jews to the mercy of the attacking forces. Between 2-3000 Jews were murdered and hundreds of Torah scrolls were destroyed, many of which had been brought to the city by the refugees.
1786 October 4, AARON LEVY (1742-1815) (USA)
A land speculator who had made many loans to the Continental Congr... |
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