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1942.
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January 1942.
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Roosevelt and
Churchill
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1st
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Sales of new trucks and cars banned in US.
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8th
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Red Army push Germans back in the Crimea
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13th
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700 Jews deported from Lodz in Poland to Chelmno death
camp, the first of 10,000 for "resettlement".
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17th
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North Africa. The Axis base of Halfaya is taken with
5,500 prisoners.
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20th.
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Churchill orders that
Singapore be converted into a citadel and defended to the
death.
Japanese take New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
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30th.
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Evacuation of nearly 500,000 citizens begins in
Leningrad.
German and Italian Troops take Benghazi.
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26th
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German troops recapture Msus in Libya destroying the
British Second Armoured Brigade.
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28th
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SS General Frans Schlecker, commander in the Baltic
states reports to Berlin he has killed 229,052 Jews.
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29th.
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"I offer no
excuses"
Churchill wins vote of
confidence in the House of Commons, 464 votes to 1
House of Commons
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30th
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Hitler says the result of this war will be the complete
annihilation of the Jews..."the most
evil universal enemy of all time will be finished".
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20th
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Over lunch today followed by brandy and coffee in the
beautiful surroundings of the villa Grossen Wannsee,
Reinhardt Hydrich announced plans for the total
extermination of all Jews.
There are people in every country capable of
such evil deeds.
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February 1942.
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1st.
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German tobacco rationing starts. Women receive only half
the male allowance.
Beaverbrook becomes Minister of War Production.
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9th.
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Japanese invade Singapore.
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14th
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Japanese invade Summatra.
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15th.
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Total destruction of Malta
Dockyards
Two merchant ships in convoy to Malta sunk
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21st.
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British coal miners exempt from soap rationing.
Rangoon evacuated.
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19th.
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Canada introduces military conscription.
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20th.
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German casualties in Russia 199,448 dead, 708,351
wounded, 44,342 missing and 112,627 cases of severe
frostbite.
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23rd
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US gives USSR 1000 million dollar loan.
Sir Arthur Harris takes over as head of RAF Bomber
Command.
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24th
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764 Rumanian Jewish refugees heading for Palestine drown
in the Black Sea when Soviet submarine sinks their ship.
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26th
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British government outlines building plan to provide
cheap housing for all after the war.
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28th
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10,000 Jews from Lodz were gassed at Chelmno and 4,618
Jews died of starvation in Warsaw ghetto.
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13 Allied Warships reported sunk in Pacific.
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General Sir Harold
Alexander.
C in C of Middle East Forces.
The quality of military
leadership amongst the Allies was outstanding during the
Second World War and reflected back the quality of the
Allies political leadership.
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March 1942.
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British commando raid to destroy German Radio Beacons in
Le Havre.
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2nd
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Germans shoot dead 5000 Jews in Minsk (USSR)
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3rd
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New Lancaster bomber begins operations.
100.000 American Japanese 'evacuated' from the West
Coast.
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Chelmno in Poland. 3,200 Jews from Zychlin gassed.
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4th
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3000 Jews massacred in Baranowicze in Russia.
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5th.
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Conscription extended in Britain to men aged 45 and women
up to 30.
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6th
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Malta still under siege. HMS Eagle delivers 15
Spitfires.
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10th
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Britain's war spending reaches £9,050 million
exceeding the cost of the entire first world war.
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11th
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Resistance fighters in France claim they have killed 250
Germans blowing up a train
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Maximum sentence for black marketeering increased to 14
years penal servitude.
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13th
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RAF send 251 bombers to attack Essen.
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Second Nazi death camp opens in Belzec in Poland with
6000 Jews.
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15th
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German casualties in the East reach 250,000 so far this
year.
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16th
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1600 Jews deported to Belzec, the second camp after
Chelmno designed purely for the extermination of Jews.
Mountbatten and MacArthur
MacArthur appointed Chief of Allied Staff in Far East.
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20th
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Allied soldiers attack Benghazi to divert access
attention of Maltese convoy.
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26th
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RAF fought off 5 big
Luftwaffe attacks in 48 hours.
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27th.
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First 999 Slovakian Jewesses arrive in Auschwitz.
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28th.
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Hitler orders all Jewish homes to be clearly marked.
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31st
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Congress party demands immediate independence in Delhi.
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April 1942.
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4th
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Hitler orders raids on British historic towns as revenge
for bombing of Lubeck.
Germans retreat from Kharkov.
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8th
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272 RAF bombers raid Hamburg.
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17th
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Gestapo reports increase in anti-Nazi graffiti in
Dortmund and other Rhienland industrial areas.
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20th
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US carrier Wasp delivers 46 Spitfires to Malta, of which
30 are immediately destroyed by Luftwaffe.
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Laval broadcasts to French people that Russia must not be
allowed to win war and calls for closer co-operation with
Germany.
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21st
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Germans shoot 20 French hostages for complicity in the
Resistance.
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26th
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Hitler followed by
Himmler Inspect Troops
Hitler made supreme judge of Reich and given powers to
act independently of the law.
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27th
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RAF bombs Rostock for the fourth night, 70% of city
destroyed and 100,000 are homeless.
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1000 Jews deported to their deaths at Belzec and Sobibor
from Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia.
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30th
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4,432 Jews have died of starvation and typhoid in the
Warsaw ghetto.
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Renewed bombing in London kills 938, and 998 injured.
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31st
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SS General Frans Schlecker, commander in the Baltic
states reports to Berlin he has killed 229,052 Jews.
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