Today in
World War II History
World War II History
1940 - A Nazi "special unit" began murdering more than 1,500 hospital patients in East Prussia. The operation of killing the "unfit" mentally ill patients took 18 days.
1941 - The first U.S. ship, the SS Robin Moor, was sunk by a U-boat.
1942 - 4,300 Jews were deported from Chelm, Poland, to the Nazi extermination camp at Sobibor.
1942 - The German company IG Farben set up a factory just outside of Auschwitz, in order to take advantage of Jewish slave laborers.
| "To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance, and we were now going to finish with it for good." Field Marshal Erwin Rommel - June 1942 |
