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fierce fighting between Gers and Brit defenders on Leros reptd; Gers land parachutists on narrowest part of island and separate 2 Brit forces; RAF continues sweep over Aegean
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US bombers blast Madang; fire fuel and supply dumps, destroy 4 grounded Jap planes, Alexishafen; attack 3 ships, Kavieng area; Allied planes raid Rabaul and Gasmata
H H Lehman favors 1% of natl income formula for assigning UNRRA program costs
1943The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".[†]
The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were committed primarily through mass shootings across Eastern Europe and poison gas chambers in extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, and Chełmno in occupied Poland. Separate Nazi persecutions killed millions of other non-Jewish civilians and prisoners of war (POWs); the term Holocaust is sometimes used to include the murder and persecution of non-Jewish groups.