WW2 War Diary for Tuesday, February 16, 1943:
Eastern Front
Southern Sector: Kharkov recaptured by Red Army.
Home Fronts
Germany – The Munich Students’ ‘Revolt’: Gauleiter Geisler of Bavaria harangues assembled university students and taunts them with insults and obscenities. Meeting ends in pandemonium as students overpower SS guards and police and take to the streets. Widespread outbreaks of sabotage, etc., in Munich and sympathetic student demonstrations in Vienna, Mannheim, Stuttgart, Frankfurt and the Ruhr.