Allied bomber offensive

On 10 June 1943 the Americans and British inaugurate a co-ordinated bomber offensive against Germany. While the four-engine „Flying Fortresses“ of the 8th US Army Air Corps fly precision strikes during the day against industrial and transportation targets, the British concentrate at night on area-wide strikes against West German industrial centres. The Allies’ principal goal is the destruction of the German submarine and aircraft industries.

Photo: scharnowski Fellbach, a small town, was destroyed in 1944 when the alliied missed the Daimler works in nearby Untertürkheim

Liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in Poland

Foto: wozniak The main entrance to the Cracow Ghetto. The design of the surrounding wall is reminiscent of jewish tombstones

On 21 June 1943 „Reichsführer SS“ Heinrich Himmler orders the liquidation of all Jewish ghettos in occupied Poland. The Jews are to be transported to the extermination camps established since the spring of 1942 and murdered there.