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1943-02-18Sportpalast speech

Joseph Goebbels delivers a speech calling for total war to a large, carefully-selected audience. This speech was the first indication to the German people that Nazi Germany was seriously threatened.

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1943-02-18White Rose Arrested

Hans and Sophie Scholl, ringleaders of the anti-war White Rose movement, are into Gestapo custody. The other active members of the movement are soon arrested and interrogated.

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1943-02-14Rostov-on-Don

Soviet troops re-enter Rostov-on-Don, a strategic railway junction, river port and gateway to the Caucus oil-fields. It would take 10 years to repair the damage to the city.

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1943-02-141943-02-17Sidi Bou Zid

US troops from the 1st Armoured Division CCA (Combat Command A), CCB and CCC is forced to retreat after losing losing 46 medium tanks, 130 vehicles and 9 self-propelled guns.

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1943-02-08Soviets take Kursk

Soviet troops enter Kursk.

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1943-01-31Paulus Surrenders

Field Marshal Paulus surrenders the 6th army at Stalingrad and, referring to Hitler's expectations of suicide or holding out to the last man, says "I have no intention of shooting myself for this Austrian corporal".

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1943-01-291943-01-31Battle of Wau

Australian defenders had been greatly reinforced by air. In the battle that followed, despite achieving tactical surprise by approaching from an unexpected direction, the Japanese attackers were unable to capture Wau.

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1943-01-291943-01-30Rennell Island

Japanese air attacks on a U.S. task force sink a heavy cruiser and damage a destoryer. The rest of the U.S. task force was forced to retreat from the southern Solomons area. As a result Japanese forces were able to safely evacuate Guadalcanal.

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1943-01-23Tripoli Captured

With Rommel withdrawing to the French-built southern defenses of Tunisia, the Mareth Line, following the Second Battle of El Alamein. The British 8th Army enter Tripoli.

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1943-01-18Warsaw Uprising Launched

The Jewish effort to prevent the remaining Warsaw Ghetto population being moved to Treblinka extermination camp begins.

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