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  • Berlin, Germany
    Thursday Apr 1, 1943
    Joseph Goebbels

    Goebbels was named Stadtpräsident of Berlin

    Berlin, Germany
    Thursday Apr 1, 1943

    On 1 April 1943, Goebbels was named Stadtpräsident of Berlin, thus uniting under his control the city's highest party and governmental offices.




  • Berlin, Germany
    Monday Apr 12, 1943
    Martin Bormann

    Hitler Officially appointed Bormann as Personal Secretary to The Führer

    Berlin, Germany
    Monday Apr 12, 1943

    Preoccupied with military matters and spending most of his time at his military headquarters on the eastern front, Hitler came to rely more and more on Bormann to handle the domestic policies of the country. On 12 April 1943, Hitler officially appointed Bormann as Personal Secretary to the Führer. By this time Bormann had de facto control over all domestic matters, and this new appointment gave him the power to act in an official capacity in any matter.




  • U.K
    Tuesday Apr 13, 1943
    Operation Mincemeat

    The committee articulated that Operation Mincemeat must be complete

    U.K
    Tuesday Apr 13, 1943

    On 13 April 1943 the committee of the Chiefs of Staff met and agreed that they thought the plan should proceed. The committee informed Colonel John Bevan – the head of London Controlling Section, which controlled the planning and co-ordination of deception operations – that he needed to obtain final approval from Churchill.




  • Warsaw, Poland
    Friday Apr 16, 1943
    The Holocaust

    Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    Warsaw, Poland
    Friday Apr 16, 1943

    The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II to oppose Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to Majdanek and Treblinka death camps.




  • U.K
    Saturday Apr 17, 1943
    Operation Mincemeat

    Solving the problem of freezing Michael's corpse feet

    U.K
    Saturday Apr 17, 1943

    In the early hours of 17 April 1943 the corpse of Michael was dressed as Martin, although there was one last-minute hitch: the feet had . Purchase, Montagu and Cholmondeley could not put the boots on, so an electric heater was located and the feet defrosted enough to put the boots on properly. The pocket litter was placed on the body, and the briefcase attached.




  • Scotland, United Kingdom
    Wednesday Apr 21, 1943
    Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle was scheduled to fly in a Wellington

    Scotland, United Kingdom
    Wednesday Apr 21, 1943

    On 21 April 1943, de Gaulle was scheduled to fly in a Wellington bomber to Scotland to inspect the Free French Navy.




  • Spain
    Friday Apr 30, 1943
    Operation Mincemeat

    Martin's body pushed into the sea

    Spain
    Friday Apr 30, 1943

    On 30 April 1943, Lt. Norman Jewell, captain of the submarine HMS Seraph, read the 39th Psalm, and Martin's body was gently pushed into the sea where the tide, aided by the push of the submarine's propellers, would bring it ashore off Huelva on the Spanish Atlantic coast.


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