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The Holocaust and World War II: Jews in the Częstochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis
World War II: The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world's largest tank battle,…
World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into the sea in an apparent accident…
World War II: In Gibraltar, a Royal Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into the sea in an apparent accident…
World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails for Sicily (Operation Husky, July 10, 1943).
World War II: German forces begin a massive offensive against the Soviet Union at the Battle of Kursk, also known as…
World War II: The Allied invasion of Sicily begins, leading to the downfall of Mussolini and forcing Hitler to break…
World War II: Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily, begins.
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army within the Reichskommissariat…
World War II: Allied invasion of Sicily: German and Italian troops launch a counter-attack on Allied forces in Sicily.
World War II: Battle of Kursk: German and Soviet forces engage in the Battle of Prokhorovka, one of the largest…
World War II: Rome is heavily bombed by more than 500 Allied aircraft, inflicting thousands of casualties.
World War II: Allied forces capture Palermo during the Allied invasion of Sicily.
World War II: Axis occupation forces violently disperse a massive protest in Athens, killing 22.
World War II: The British destroyers HMS Eclipse and HMS Laforey sink the Italian submarine Ascianghi in the…
World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes…
World War II: Benito Mussolini is forced out of office by the King (encouraged by the Grand Council of Fascism) and is…
World War II: 136 Greek civilians are murdered by soldiers of the German 1st Mountain Division in the village of…
World War II: Operation Gomorrah: The Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg, Germany causing a firestorm that kills 42,000…
World War II: Operation Tidal Wave, also known as "Black Sunday", was a failed American attempt to destroy Romanian…