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Februar 1943 Die Niederlage der deutschen Wehrmacht in der Schlacht von Stalingrad bedeutet die Wende im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Casablanca-Konferenz: Sitzend: Der amerikanische Präsident Franklin D. Roosevelt und der britische Premierminister Winston Churchill;
1943 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1943rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 943rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 43rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1940s decade.
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Allied plan
Following the defeat of the Axis powers in North Africa in May 1943, there was disagreement between the Allies about the next step. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill wanted to invade Italy, which in November 1942 he had called "the soft underbelly of the axis" (American General Mark W. Clark would later call it "one tough gut"). Churchill noted that Italian popular support for the war was declining and an invasion would remove Italy from the Axis, thus weakening Axis influence in the M...
Axis defensive organization
In mid-August, the Germans had activated Army Group B under Erwin Rommel with responsibility for German troops in Italy as far south as Pisa. Army Command South under Albert Kesselring continued to be responsible for southern Italy and the German High Command formed a new army headquarters to be Army Command South's main field formation. The new German 10th Army headquarters, commanded by Heinrich von Vietinghoff, was activated on 22 August. The German 10th Army had two subordinate corps with...
Operations in southern Italy
On 3 September 1943, the British Eighth Army's XIII Corps, commanded by Lieutenant-General Miles Dempsey and composed of the 1st Canadian and British 5th Infantry Divisions, launched Operation Baytown under General Bernard Montgomery's direction. Opposition to the landings was light and the Italian units surrendered almost immediately. Albert Kesselring and his staff did not believe the Calabria landings would be the main Allied point of attack, the Salerno region or possibly even north of Ro...
Salerno landings
Operation Avalanche–the main invasion at Salerno by the American Fifth Army under Lieutenant General Mark Clark–began on 9 September 1943, and in order to secure surprise, it was decided to assault without preliminary naval or aerial bombardment. However, as Admiral Henry Hewitt, the amphibious force commander, had predicted, tactical surprise was not achieved. As the first wave of Major General Fred L. Walker's U.S. 36th Infantry Division approached the Paestum shore at 03:30 a loudspeaker f...
Luftwaffe response
Luftwaffe planes began strafing and bombing the invasion beaches shortly after 04:00 on the morning of 9 September before X Corps seized the Montecorvino airfield 5 km (3 mi) inland later that day, destroying three dozen German planes. However, failure to capture the high ground inland left the airfield within easy range of German artillery and therefore unusable by Allied aircraft. On 10 September, German bombers began targeting Admiral Hewitt's flagship USS Ancon while the ship was serving...
The 10th Army had come close to defeating the Salerno beachhead. The stubborn initial resistance by 16th Panzer Division's battlegroups and the Germans' ability to move land reinforcements more quickly than the Allies could land follow-up forces by sea or air nearly tipped the battle. The Fifth Army planners had concentrated the main weight of its ...
Holland, James (2023). The Savage Storm: the Battle for Italy 1943 (Paperback). London: Transworld. ISBN 9781787636682.Mavrogordato, Ralph S. (1960). "12 Hitler's Decision on the Defense of Italy". In Kent Roberts Greenfield (ed.). Command Decisions (2000 reissue ed.). United States Army Center of Military History...."Canada–Italy: 1943–1945". Veterans Affairs Canada. Archived from the original on 27 March 2010. Retrieved 17 February 2010.1943 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1943rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 943rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 43rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1940s decade.
Jan. Feb. März. Apr. Mai. Juni. Juli. Aug. Sep. Okt. Nov. Dez. Hamburg nach den Luftangriffen 1943. By Dowd J (Fg Off), Royal Air Force official photographer [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. VIDEO: 1943 – Schlacht von Stalingrad: 6. Armee kapituliert. Chronik – 1943 Entscheidung in Stalingrad – die 6.
Die deutsche Presse verbreitet die Nachricht, dass die Wehrmacht im Februar 1943 in Katyn (bei Smolensk) die Leichen von 4.000 polnischen Offizieren entdeckt hat, die 1940 von Sowjets ermordet worden sind. Das NS-Regime erhofft sich von der Nachricht eine Schwächung der Anti-Hitler-Koalition. Erst 1990 übernimmt die Sowjetunion offiziell die ...
07.-10. April: beim Treffen in Salzburg drängt Mussolini Hitler zu Friedensverhandlungen mit der Sowjetunion. 19. April: Aufstand im Warschauer Ghetto wird niedergeschlagen. Mai 1943. 12. Mai: Achsenmächte kapitulieren in Tunesien, Nordafrika. Juni 1943. 03. Juni: De Gaulle gründet Befreiungskomitee CFLN in Algier. 19.-21.
