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October 24, 1943: Beheading of Leonard George Siffleet. Soldatensender Calais, also known as "Soldiers' Radio Calais", went on the air at 5:57 pm. Operating on the same frequency as Radio Deutschland, Germany's national radio station, Radio Calais would begin transmission whenever Radio Deutschland was off the air during bombing raids. [78]
Destruction at Schweinfurt after 14 October 1943 raid Although the Schweinfurt factories were badly hit, the mission failed to achieve any lasting effect. The production of ball bearings in the factories was halted for only 6 weeks and Germany's war industry could easily rely on its substantial inventory of ball bearings as well as a large ...
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 (died 2024) 21 November – Kasper König, German museum director (died 2024)
On the afternoon of 14 October 1943, members of the Sobibor underground covertly killed eleven of the on-duty SS men and then led roughly 300 prisoners to freedom. [192] This revolt was one of three uprisings by Jewish prisoners in extermination camps, the others being those at Treblinka extermination camp on 2 August 1943 and at Auschwitz ...
October 23, 1943: 26 Jewish Arrived at the camp on October 23, 1943, killed after she stabbed SS Oberscharführer Walter Quakernack and then shot SS Oberscharführer Josef Schillinger (died of wounds) and SS Sergeant Emmerich. Bernard Natan: July 14, 1886: October 1942: 56 Jewish Film director and actor and former head of Pathé Film Studios ...
Hans Philipp (17 March 1917 – 8 October 1943) was a German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II.A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. [1]
Johann Niemann (4 August 1913 – 14 October 1943) was a German SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator who was deputy commandant of Sobibor extermination camp during Operation Reinhard. He also served as a Leichenverbrenner (corpse cremator) at Grafeneck, Brandenburg, and Bernburg during the Aktion T4, the SS "euthanasia" program.
Wilhelm "Willi" Graf (2 January 1918 – 12 October 1943) was a German member of the White Rose resistance group in Nazi Germany. [1] The Catholic Church in Germany included Graf in their list of martyrs of the 20th century. In 2017, his cause for beatification was opened.