February 1943
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This article covers current news and events at the time - February 1943 .
Continuous one month: World War II
Daily events by date
Monday February 1, 1943
- Died:
- Frank Worsley , New Zealand captain and polar explorer
Tuesday February 2, 1943
- Moscow / Berlin: End of the Battle of Stalingrad (surrender of the 6th Army of the Wehrmacht; generally perceived as the turn of the war in this part of the world war)
- Born
- Paul Friedhoff , German entrepreneur and politician (FDP) and member of the Bundestag († 2015 )
- Wanda Rutkiewicz , Polish mountaineer († 1992 )
Thursday February 4, 1943
- Zurich : Bertolt Brecht , with the assistance of Ruth Berlau and Margarete Steffin resulting play The Good Person of Szechwan has its world premiere at the Schauspielhaus . The director is Leonard Steckel .
- Born
- Ken Thompson , American computer scientist (Unix)
Monday February 8, 1943
- Guadalcanal (British): after deduction of the japan. Troops is the island of Guadalcanal northeast of Australia in American hands
Tuesday February 9, 1943
- The camp commandant SS-Brigadefuhrer Richard Glücks ordered total quarantine for the Auschwitz concentration camp . Work on the construction sites, especially on the gas chambers, will be temporarily suspended.
- Born
- Joseph E. Stiglitz , American economist
Wednesday February 10, 1943
- Paris: In a memo, the Jewish officer Heinz Röthke noted the French attitude towards the deportation of Jews of French nationality
Monday, February 15, 1943
- Auschwitz concentration camp : guest performance by members of the Saxon State Theater in Dresden in the small hall of the comradeship home of the Waffen SS under the motto “Goethe - serious and cheerful”. (Among others the alto Inger Karén , who sang the role of Erda in the Ring des Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Festival in 1938 - her colleague Ottilie Metzger-Lattermann , also as Erda in Bayreuth, was murdered four months earlier in Auschwitz.)
- Berlin: German schoolchildren born in 1926 and 1927 received for the first time on this date a notice of employment as flak helpers in military service
Tuesday February 16, 1943
- Kharkov (city in Ukraine): it is given up by troops of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS against Hitler's orders in order to avoid an impending encirclement
- Himmler's orders to completely tear down the remaining part of the Warsaw Ghetto
Thursday February 18, 1943
- Berlin: In a speech in the Berlin Sports Palace, Nazi Propaganda Minister Goebbels calls on the population to be ready for " total war " (see: Sports Palace speech )
Saturday, February 20, 1943
- A Reichsbahn train with 997 deported "Jews and unwanted elements" arrives at Auschwitz-Birkenau . The "Transport" left Berlin (Moabit station) on February 19, 1943 .
- Concentration camp Auschwitz: telex of the conductor of the department "shift", obersturmführer Heinrich Schwarz to the office D II in the SS-WVHA three in Oranienburg about the "posting" train transports with a total of 5022 deported from the Theresienstadt from which shows that 4,092 people were "housed separately", which was the code name for the murder in the gas chambers . 930 people were "selected for work" ( selection for forced labor in the concentration camp ).
- Frankfurt am Main: The opera Die Kluge by Carl Orff , based on a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm , is premiered
- In Mexico : the Paricutín volcano is formed. After one day it is 10 meters, after three days already 50 meters, and now 3,170 meters.
- 21st of February
- Kharkov (Ukraine): a German counter-offensive begins ( third battle for Kharkov ); by March 5, the area as far as the central Donets will be recaptured; leads to considerable land gains and again to a closed front. Until March 14th, Charkow u. a. recaptured by Waffen SS troops. This prevented the collapse of the Eastern Front that was potentially imminent in spring 1943.
- Born
- Paul Kirchhof , later judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
Monday, February 22, 1943
- White Rose , murder of three members of the resistance group in the Stadelheim prison in Munich
Tuesday, February 23, 1943
- Berlin: Armaments Minister Speer wants to use Hungarian Jews as slave labor in Serbia
Saturday, February 27, 1943
- Berlin: Beginning of the public and day-long Rosenstrasse protest by women against the deportation of Jews (their men) from Berlin (The partial success: on March 5, 25 of the prisoners were nevertheless deported for forced labor to the Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp in the Buna factory. However, these were fetched back and released after a few weeks. Gestapo officials allegedly had not complied with the requirements of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) , according to which certain groups of Jewish people were to be exempted from deportation "Valid Jews" and some "exceptional cases" were released one after the other. Most of these 2000 people arrested in the Rosenstrasse assembly camp were probably released again. Most of the 6000 Berlin Jews imprisoned in the other assembly camps, however, were sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp -Birkenau kidnapped and mostly murdered there immediately.)
Sunday February 28, 1943
- A train of the Reichsbahn with 1095 deported "Jews and undesirable elements" arrives at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp . The “Transport” left Berlin-Moabit station on February 26, 1943 .
See also
- February (for month name)
- Chronology of World War II, 1943
- Nekrolog February 1943 for deaths that month
- List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in February
- Category for articles about commemorative days, holidays or action days in February
Individual evidence
- ↑ Source Edition VEeuJ33-45 - Vol 12, No Doc .: 290..
- ↑ Source Edition VEeuJ33-45 - Vol 9, Doc Nr.:217..
- ↑ Source Edition VEeuJ33-45 - Vol 14, No Doc .: 176..
Web links
Commons : February 1943 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
- Chronicle 1943 (Living virtual museum online at dhm.de)
- Digitized newspapers from 1943 in the newspaper information system (ZEFYS) of the Berlin State Library