1943
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Events
Dated Events
- Real World: January 18. Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto begin an uprising against German authorities.
- Real World: February 2. The last German forces surrender to Soviet forces in the Battle of Stalingrad.
- Real World: March 13. Nazis wipe out the entire population of the Jewish ghetto in Krakow.
- Real World: May 13. German and Italian forces in North Africa surrender to the Allies.
- Real World: May 16. The uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto ends.
- Real World: May 24. Josef Mengele is made Chief Medical Officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- Real World: July 10. Allied forces land on Sicily, beginning the invasion of Axis-controlled Europe.
- Real World: July 19. Rome is bombed by Allied forces.
- Real World: July 24. Allied forces initiate Operation Gomorrah, a series of coordinated bombing raids on Hamburg, Germany.
- Real World: July 27. Weather conditions in Hamburg magnify the effects of the Allied bombing of the city to create a massive firestorm, killing 40,000 people.
- Real World: August 3. Operation Gomorrah ends.
- Real World: August 17. The Allied conquest of Sicily is complete.
- Real World: September 3. Allied forces initiate the invasion of mainland Italy.
- Real World: November 15. SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that gypsies and those of gypsy descent be given the same fate as Jews.
- Real World: November 22. Lebanon becomes independent from France.
New Fictional Works
Notable Books
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
Notable Films
The Ape Man, Baron Munchhausen, Captive Wild Woman, Dead Men Walk, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, G-Men vs. the Black Dragon, A Guy Named Joe, Heaven Can Wait, I Walked with a Zombie, The Mad Ghoul, The Masked Marvel (serial), The Phantom of the Opera, The Return of the Vampire, Revenge of the Zombies, The Seventh Victim, Sherlock Holmes Faces Death, Sherlock Holmes in Washington, Son of Dracula, Tarzan Triumphs. Fleischer Superman serials The Mummy Strikes, Jungle Drums, Underground World and Secret Agent.
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