March 1943
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This article covers current news and events at the time - March 1943 .
Continuous month: World War II - 1943
Daily events
Monday March 1, 1943
- Canned food is rationed in the US (by the US Office of Price Administration)
- Berlin : 486 people die and 377 are seriously injured in air strikes by the Royal Air Force and the US Army Air Force.
- Koriukivka (in northern Ukraine ): Mass murder: 6700 residents are murdered by SS units
- Helsinki : Risto Ryti (1889–1956), beginning of the second term as Finnish President (until 1944)
Tuesday March 2, 1943
- Moscow : The Soviet Union rejects the request of the Polish government-in-exile to restore the common border of 1939 and claims the territory it occupies.
Wednesday March 3, 1943
Thursday March 4, 1943
Friday March 5, 1943
- German Empire: The Allies begin heavy bombing raids on the Ruhr area.
- Berlin: On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Universum Film AG (Ufa), the film "Münchhausen" will be premiered with Hans Albers in the leading role.
Saturday March 6, 1943
Sunday March 7th 1943
Monday March 8, 1943
Tuesday March 9, 1943
- Rommel, who had meanwhile been fighting unsuccessfully, was released from command of Army Group Africa . His successor is Colonel General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim.
Wednesday March 10, 1943
Thursday March 11, 1943
Friday March 12, 1943
- Washington: The US extends the Lending and Lease Act of February 18 , 1941 in support of the Allied war economy against Hitler.
Sunday March 14, 1943
- A bomb attack on Hitler planned by the resistance group around Colonel Henning von Tresckow fails.
Saturday March 20, 1943
- North Atlantic : German submarines sink 21 Allied ships in the largest convoy battle of the war.
Sunday March 21, 1943
- Berlin: Attempt to assassinate Hitler by Colonel Rudolf-Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff (1905–1980) during a military exhibition in the armory.
Friday March 26, 1943
- March 26, in a secret letter to various generals, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler calls for a coup d'état against Hitler .
Sunday March 28, 1943
Died:
- Sergej Rachmaninow (* 1873) in Los Angeles, Russian composer
See also
- March (for month name)
- Nekrolog March 1943 for deaths that month
- List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in March
- Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in March
Individual evidence
- ^ "OPA Rules Put US on Short Rations Today", Chicago Daily Tribune , March 1, 1943, p1
- ^ "Monster RAF Attack on Berlin Hailed as 'Prologue to Invasion'", Milwaukee Journal , March 2, 1943, p1; "Berlin Ups Toll to 486", Milwaukee Journal , March 7, 1943, p1
Web links
Commons : March 1943 - Collection of Pictures, 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