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(823)1943
January
- 24
- The demand for unconditional surrenderOn 24 January 1943, closing the Casablanca Conference, Roosevelt announced that the Allies would demand the unconditional surrender of Germany, Italy and Japan.
- The Stalingrad pocket splitIn late January 1943 Hitler rejected Paulus's requests to be allowed to surrender, and on 26 January Soviet troops split the Stalingrad pocket in two.
February
March
- 16
- The discovery of the Katyn gravesIn March 1943 the German Secret Field Police examined mass graves of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest. The world learned of them only in April.
- Stalin demands a second frontIn March 1943 Congress extended Lend-Lease, and on 15–16 March Stalin warned Churchill and Roosevelt against further delay to an invasion of France.
April
- 07
- The Battle of Wadi AkaritOn 6 April 1943 the Eighth Army broke the Axis position on the Wadi Akarit, and on 7 April its patrols met Americans of II Corps on the road to Gabès.
- Bolivia declares war on the AxisOn 7 April 1943 President Enrique Peñaranda decreed that Bolivia was at war with Germany, Italy and Japan. The country supplied the Allies with tin.
- 19
- Key eventThe Warsaw Ghetto Uprising beginsOn 19 April 1943, the eve of Passover, ŻOB and ŻZW fighters drove back the Germans entering the Warsaw Ghetto. They soon returned under Jürgen Stroop.
- The attack on the Twentieth Convoy from MechelenOn 19 April 1943 three young Belgians with one pistol stopped a train taking Jews to Auschwitz near Boortmeerbeek. More than 230 people escaped.
May
June
July
- 12
- The Battle of KolombangaraOn the night of 12–13 July 1943 the Allies sank the cruiser Jintsū, but Japanese torpedoes damaged three Allied cruisers and sank the destroyer Gwin.
- The Battle of ProkhorovkaOn 12 July 1943 the 5th Guards Tank Army struck the SS Panzer Corps at Prokhorovka. It lost hundreds of tanks but halted the German advance.
August
September
- 22
- The landing at FinschhafenOn 22 September 1943 the Australian 20th Brigade landed near Finschhafen on the Huon Peninsula. The town fell on 2 October, but fighting went on until December.
- Operation SourceOn 22 September 1943 British midget submarines laid charges under the Tirpitz in Kåfjord. The battleship was put out of action for half a year.
October
November
- 09
- The attack on the Winter LineIn early November 1943 the Allies reached the Garigliano and attacked the Bernhardt Line, but on 15 November the exhausted Fifth Army had to halt.
- The fake Le SoirOn 9 November 1943 the Belgian underground distributed in Brussels a fake issue of the collaborationist Le Soir, mocking German defeats in the east.