WW2 War Diary for Monday, February 8, 1943:
Home Fronts
Germany: Himmler orders special precautions to be taken at concentration camps, to prevent mass escapes in the event of air raids – including sub-division of each camp into blocks, each containing 4,000 prisoners, which are to be surrounded by minefields, electrically charged barbed wire, searchlights and dogs trained to kill on sight.
Eastern Front
Southern sector: Kursk recaptured by Russians.