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1945: Russians troops capture Memel on Baltic Coast after the German evacuation, which now leaves the whole of Lithuania in Russian hands. German forces begin evacuating the vital coal mining and industrial region of Upper Silesia.
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... other groups, the main debate was whether to fight in the ghetto or join the partisans. Wittenberg convinced the others to accept the former. An underground press was founded which played a vital role in forging identification cards as well as bringing information to the populace.
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... led by Appelbaum to fight the Germans and received their first weapons. The ZZW was mostly comprised of Zionist revisionists and Betarim - followers of Ze'ev Jabotinsky. The ZZW played a vital role in the Warsaw ghetto uprising as well as in the forests as partisans.
1940: British mine Bay of Biscay.
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1941: Tobacco ration in Paris reduced to four cigarettes per day for men and zero for women.
1941: Army Group South begins an offensive against the vital land bridge to the Crimea at Perekop.
1942: Units of Army Group A launch an attack a... |
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1940: The Soviets officially absorbs Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into the Soviet union, as per the Soviet-German non-aggression pact.
1941: Vital convoy reaches Malta after two-day battle; HMS Fearless is sunk.
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... Motorised divisions.
1940: The first anti-Jewish measures are taken in Vichy France.
1940: Under extreme diplomatic pressure, Britain agrees to close the Burma Road, a vital supply route for the Chinese army.
1941: FDR wants to double the 7 night baseball games to keep war workers on the job.
1941: In Finland the old 1939 border is c... |
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... even though the 4th Panzer Army and Army Detachment Kempf in the southern sector have succeeded in capturing the pivotal town of Prokhorovka. To prevent further attrition, especially of the vital armored forces, Field Marshals von Kluge and von Manstein urge Hitler to call off the operation, but Hitler refuses.
1943: 144 Allied transport planes fired on by US Navy ship... |
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... Morgenthau, and Hopkins as the "war cabinet".
1940: Both Houses of Parliament meet in secret session to discuss Home Defense.
1940: German troops capture Lyons and the vital port of Brest in Brittany. French envoys drive behind German lines to receive armistice terms. Italian forces begins an offensive along the Riviera coast into France.
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... Liberal Party of Israel, S Abramov, the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, reports was outspoken on this score, saying:
Israel is fighting not only to defend itself but also to defend the vital interests of the West... Israeli soldiers at the Suez Canal spare the United States the need to send its own troops to that region.
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| ... fighters to flee to the forests, especially from the bunker at Mila 18. Among them was Tosia (Tova) Altman, who was one of the leaders of the HaShomer HaTzair youth movement which played a vital role in the revolt. Tosia, who had worked as a courier, succeeded in getting to the Aryan side when on May 24, 1943, she was badly burned in an accidental fire. The Gestapo captured her an... |
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