Diary January 30, 1943

01-1943, Diary WW2, War Diary, Year 1943 / 1 minute of reading

Goering speaks for the tenth anniversary of the Nazi regime together with a ‘funeral oration’ for the 6th Army at Stalingrad, later called the ‘Thermopylae speech’ after the Spartan hero myth.

WW2 War Diary for Saturday, January 30, 1943:

Air War

Germany – FIRST ALLIED DAYLIGHT BOMBING RAIDS ON BERLIN: 6 RAF Mosquito bombers (1 lost) attack in 2 waves – timed to interrupt broadcasts by Goering and Goebbels on tenth anniversary of Nazi regime.
H2S radar bombing equipment tested over Hamburg.

Home Fronts

Germany: Goering broadcasts (1 hour late) ‘if Germany collapsed . . . the Soviet would sweep through Europe . . . Every German must be prepared to give his life so that his race may live’.

Eastern Front

Caucasus: Maikop with its oil fields recaptured by Russians.

Africa

Tunisia: Germans expel French from Faid Passin the south.

Politics

The Adana Conference: Churchill and Alanbrooke confer with Turkish leaders (January 30-31) and promise direct military assistance if Turkey is forced into war. But they failed to press Turkey into the war.

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My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.