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List of events
Events in the year 1943 in
Germany .
Incumbents
National level
Head of State and
Chancellor
Events
Jewish prisoners being deported from the
Kraków Ghetto .
This photograph, from the
Stroop Report , shows captured fighters in the
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising .
The
bombing of Hamburg during 1943.
18 January – World War II:
Soviet officials announce they have broken the
Wehrmacht 's
siege of Leningrad .
18 January – The
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins.
27 January – World War II: 64 bombers mount the first all American
air raid against Germany (
Wilhelmshaven is the target).
29 January – German police arrest alleged
necrophiliac
Bruno Ludke .
29 January – Dr
Ernst Kaltenbrunner succeeds the late
Reinhard Heydrich as head of the RSHA
SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt controlling the
Schutzstaffel
Gestapo
2 February – World War II: In
Russia , the
Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end with the surrender of the German 6th Army and its 91,000 remaining soldiers.
3 February – World War II: The
Four Chaplains of the U.S. Army are drowned, when their ship (
Dorchester ) is struck by a German
torpedo .
14 February – World War II:
Battle of the Kasserine Pass : German General
Erwin Rommel and his
Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in
Tunisia .
16 February – World War II: The
Soviet Union reconquers
Kharkov , but is later driven out in the
Third Battle of Kharkov
18 February – In a
speech at the Berlin Sportpalast , German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels declare a "
Total War " against the Allies.
18 February – The
Nazis arrest the members of the
White Rose movement.
22 February – Members of
White Rose are executed in
Nazi Germany.
28 February –
Operation Gunnerside : 6 Norwegians led by Joachim Ronneberg successfully attack the heavy water plant
Vemork .
1 March –
Heinz Guderian becomes the Inspector-General of the Armoured Troops for
Nazi Germany 's Army.
13 March –
Holocaust : German forces liquidate the
Jewish ghetto in
Kraków .
16 March – 19 March – World War II: 22 ships from
Convoys HX 229/SC 122 and one U-boat are sunk in the largest North Atlantic U-boat
wolfpack attack of the war.
22 March – World War II: The entire population of
Khatyn in
Belarus is burnt alive by the German Dirlewanger Brigade in retaliation for an attack of a German convoy by Soviet partisans.
26 March –
Adolf Hitler writes to
Benito Mussolini that Russia is so weakened by the defence of
Stalingrad that it cannot possibly be a serious menace.
13 April – World War II: Radio Berlin announces the discovery by
Wehrmacht of mass graves of Poles killed by Soviets in the
Katyn massacre .
6 May – World War II: Six U-boats are sunk after sinking 12 ships from
Convoy ONS 5 , regarded as the turning point in the North Atlantic U-boat war.
13 May – World War II: German
Afrika Korps and
Italian troops in
North Africa surrender to
Allied forces.
15 May – The
Comintern is dissolved in
Moscow .
16 May – World War II:
Operation Chastise by
RAF 617 Sqdn is carried out on German dams.
16 May –
Holocaust : The
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
24 May –
Holocaust :
Josef Mengele becomes the chief medical officer of
Auschwitz .
5 July – World War II:
Operation Citadel commences, resulting in the
Battle of Kursk – The largest tank battle in history begins, with German
Panther tanks seeing combat for the first time.
12 July – World War II –
Battle of Prokhorovka : The
Wehrmacht and the
Red Army fight to a draw.
24 July – World War II:
Operation Gomorrah begins:
British and
Canadian aeroplanes bomb
Hamburg by night, those of the
Americans by day.
27 July – World War II:
Operation Gomorrah – The continued
British bombing of
Hamburg , initiates a
firestorm . The fire rages through the night into the morning of the 28th, causing the majority of Operation Gomorrah's deaths.
3 August – World War II: Operation Gomorrah closes, with an estimated 42,600 killed and 37,000 wounded; much of Hamburg is leveled.
23 August – The
Battle of Kursk ends with a serious strategic defeat for the German forces.
24 August – World War II: –
Heinrich Himmler is named Reichsminister of the Interior in Germany.
29 August – World War II: Germany dissolves the
Danish government after it refuses to deal with a wave of strikes and disturbances to the satisfaction of the German authorities (see
Occupation of Denmark ).
8 September – World War II:
Frascati bombing raid September 8, 1943 : The USAAF bombs the German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone.
12 September – World War II: German paratroopers rescue
Benito Mussolini from imprisonment, in
Operation Eiche .
13 October – World War II: The new government of
Italy sides with the
Allies and declares war on Germany.
17 October – World War II: The last
commerce raider ,
auxiliary cruiser
Michel , was sunk off
Japan by
United States
submarine
Tarpon .
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22 October – World War II: The
RAF delivers a highly destructive airstrike on the German industrial and population center of
Kassel .
15 November –
Porajmos : German
SS leader
Heinrich Himmler orders that
Gypsies and "part-Gypsies" be put "on the same level as
Jews and placed in
concentration camps ."
18 November – World War II: The
Royal Air Force opens its
bombing campaign against
Berlin , with 440 planes causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses 9 aircraft and 53 aviators.
23 November – The
Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the
Berlin neighborhood of
Charlottenburg is destroyed.
2 December – A
Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of
Bari, Italy , sinks an American ship with a
mustard gas stockpile, causing
numerous fatalities ; the exact death toll is unresolved, as the bombing raid itself causes hundreds of deaths as well.
11 December –
United States Army Air Corps raids a
U-boat yard at
Emden , losing 20 planes but shooting down 138 German fighters.
20 December – First flight of a true four-engined version of the troubled He 177A heavy bomber, as the
Heinkel He 177 V102 prototype of the Heinkel He 177B series makes its maiden flight with four separate
Daimler-Benz DB 603 engines at the
Heinkel-Sud factory airfield in Schwechat .
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Births
6 January –
Wilhelm Kuhweide , German sailor
14 January –
Manfred Wolke , German boxer
22 January –
Wilhelm Genazino , German author and journalist (died
2018 )
24 January -
Peter Struck , German politician (died
2012 )
25 January -
1 February –
Brun-Otto Bryde , German judge
11 February –
Gerhard Glogowski , German politician
12 February –
Rainer Eppelmann , German politician
13 February –
Friedrich Christian Delius , German writer (died
2022 )
15 February –
Elke Heidenreich , German author and television presenter
21 February –
Paul Kirchhof , German judge
22 February –
Horst Köhler , German politician, former
President of Germany
27 February –
Klaus Köste , German gymnast (died
2012 )
24 March –
Marika Kilius , German pair skater
12 April
16 April
19 April –
Claus Theo Gärtner , German actor
1 May –
Sabine Uecker , German politician
2 May –
Manfred Schnelldorfer , German figure skater
6 May –
Wolfgang Reinhard , German pole vaulter (died
2011 )
10 May –
Wolfgang Porsche , German manager
18 May –
Helmut Haussmann , German politician
22 May –
Gesine Schwan , German politician
24 May –
Gerd Gies , German politician
31 May –
Antje Vollmer , German theologian and politician (died
2023 )
28 June –
Klaus von Klitzing , German physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
30 June –
Hartmann von der Tann , German journalist
30 June –
Dieter Kottysch , German boxer (died
2017 )
4 July
6 July –
Hans-Jürgen Papier , German judge
7 July –
Jürgen Geschke , German track cyclist
25 July
29 July
4 August –
Barbara Saß-Viehweger , German politician, lawyer and civil law notary
12 August –
Herta Däubler-Gmelin , politician
27 August –
Wolfgang Nordwig , German pole vaulter
3 September –
Dagmar Schipanski , German physicist and politician (died
2022 )
7 September –
Lena Valaitis , German singer
16 September
25 September –
Willi Entenmann , footballer and coach (died
2012 )
27 September –
Walter Riester , German politician
28 September
29 September –
Wolfgang Overath , German footballer
30 September –
Johann Deisenhofer , German biochemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
6 October –
Udo Zimmermann , German composer and opera director (died
2021 )
19 October –
Axel Ullrich , German biologist
20 October –
Madeleine Schickedanz , German entrepreneur
22 October –
Wolfgang Thierse , German politician
28 October –
Cornelia Froboess , German actress
20 November –
Bernard Broermann , German businessman
23 November –
Günther Beckstein , German politician
8 December –
Bodo Tümmler , German Olympic middle-distance runner
12 December –
Renate Schmidt , German politician
17 December –
Heidemarie Koch , German archaeologist (died
2022 )
23 December –
Queen Silvia of Sweden
25 December –
Hanna Schygulla , German actress
31 December –
Wolfgang Gerhardt , German politician
Deaths
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(November 2011 )
13 January –
Else Ury , German writer (born
1877 )
15 January –
George of Saxony ,
Crown prince of
Saxony (born
1893 )
14 February –
David Hilbert , German mathematician (born
1862 )
22 February –
Hans Scholl , German White Rose resistance member (executed by
Nazis ) (born
1918 )
22 February –
Sophie Scholl , German White Rose resistance member (executed by
Nazis ) (born
1921 )
26 February –
Theodor Eicke , German Nazi official (born
1892 )
10 March –
Otto Modersohn , German painter (born
1865 )
22 March –
Hans Woellke , German shot putter (born
1911 )
13 April –
Oskar Schlemmer , German painter, sculptor and choreographer (born
1888 )
24 April –
Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord , German general (born
1878 )
15 May –
Ludwig Roselius , German businessman (born
1874 )
31 May –
Helmut Kapp , German Gestapo official
13 July –
Luz Long , German long jump athlete (born
1913 )
21 July –
Theodor von Guérard , German jurist and politician (born
1863 )
5 August –
Liane Berkowitz , German resistance fighter of the Red Orchestra organisation (born
1923 )
2 September –
Wilhelm Geiger , German Orientalist in the fields of Indo-Iranian languages (born
1856 )
16 September –
Robert Schmidt , German politician (born
1864 )
22 September –
Heinrich Waentig , German politician (born
1870 )
23 September –
Theodor Wolff , German writer and journalist (born
1868 )
5 October –
Ludwig von Estorff , German general (born
1859 in Germany )
date unknown:
Gottlob Walz , German diver (born
1881 )
References
^ Muggenthaler, August Karl (1977). German Raiders of World War II . Prentice-Hall. p. 276.
ISBN
0-13-354027-8 .
^ Griehl, Manfred; Dressel, Joachim (1998). Heinkel He 177 – 277 – 274 . Shrewsbury, UK: Airlife Publishing. pp. 166–67.
ISBN
1-85310-364-0 .
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