This Day in History...

[theleadingman]

January 10, 1943

Soviet troops launch an all-out offensive attack on Stalingrad; they also renew attacks in the north (Leningrad) and in the Caucasus.

In the Generalgouvernement, several thousand Jews who had left forest hiding places on November 10, 1942, after a Nazi promise of safe passage, are betrayed. Most are transported to Treblinka and gassed. The remainder are sent to labor camps at nearby Sandomierz and Skarzysko Kamienna.

Four hundred Jews who resist their German overseers at the Kopernik camp in Minsk Mazowiecki, Poland, are burned alive in their barracks.

[theleadingman]

January 11, 1943

The British War Cabinet accepts the proposed policy of area bombing German submarine bases along the Biscay coast.

British Louis Mountbatten asks Canadian High Commissioner Vincent Massey to place the matter of researching Habbakuk ice ships before the Canadian government on an urgent basis.

[theleadingman]

January 12, 1943

Deportations begin from Zambrow, Poland to Auschwitz. By January 21, twenty thousand Jews will have been transported to the camp.

[theleadingman]

January 13, 1943

In the western Mediterranean, west of Algiers, Royal Canadian Navy corvette Ville de Québec in convoy TE-13 sinks German submarine U-224.

Fifteen hundred Jews are deported from Radom, Poland, to Treblinka.

[Adminenkainen]

Also in the news (since I liked this idea):

January 10, 1943

Hitler and Romanian Premier Marshal Ion Antonescu meet at Hitler's field headquarters.

Russian forces recapture 13 more points in the Caucasus, further hemming in the railroad junction of Georgievsk.

Eisenhower announces creation of a committee headed by Col. William T. Gardiner to coordinate and plan the rearmament of the French forces in North Africa.

Remnants of the Japanese convoy at Lae withdraw during the night after being bombed incessantly for three days.

In the U.S., the National Association of Secondary School Principals opposes college admission of 17-year olds who have completed three years of high school.

Governor Stassen outlines a three-point postwar economic policy for the GOP, providing for maximum production through private enterprise.

The Tolan Commission in the House states its opposition to labor draft registration in its final report, saying "the drift in the direction of compulsion" parallels "the drift in the direction of control over our war effort by a limited number of large corporations."

The Black Hood solves the murder of a trapeze artist in the Claxton Carnival.

January 11, 1943

Soviet forces retake Georgeievsk, Piatigorsk, Mineralnye Vodi, and 12 other points in the central Caucasus.

U.S. and Britain relinquish their extraterritorial and other special rights in China.

Argentina asks that Capt. Dietrich Niebuhr, attache to the German embassy in Buenos Aires, be recalled.

Prof. J.P. Bhansali, a follower of Gandhi, halts his fast after 61 days in protest against the alleged raping of village women by Indian troops.

In the U.S., F.D.R. nominates Wiley Blount Rutledge Jr. to fill the Supreme Court vacancy caused by the resignation of James F. Byrnes.

Carlo Tresca, 68, an Italian anti-Fascist leader and writer, is shot to death by an unknown assassin on Fifth Avenue in New York.

F.D.R. submits to Congress a war budget of $108.903 billion for fiscal year 1944.

Supreme Court rules that witnesses testifying under subpoena before federal grand juries investigating Sherman Antitrust Law violations are entitled to immunity from prosecution.

[Adminenkainen]

January 12, 1943

Allies capture Fezzan in southern Libya.

The French Communists are formally included into General de Gaulle's French National Committee.

U.S. forces occupy Amchitka, one of the Rat Islands in the western Aleutians.

8,000 of the 18,000 striking Pennsylvania coal miners return to work.

O.P.A. orders the price of corn frozen for 60 days at $1 a bushel.