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Outstanding athletes and sportsmen, '43
THE current production of "The Family Carnovsky," by I.J. Singer, which marks the Silver Jubilee of the Yiddish Art Theatre, is the first play of Jewish life under Hitlerism. To be sure, there were many plays both on the stage and on the screen dramatizing assorted Nazi atrocities inside and outside Germany.
USSR attacks and Ger counter-attacks since July 12, '43; possible USSR drives
1943World War II: German warship Scharnhorst is sunk off Norway's North Cape after a battle against major Royal Navy forces.[†]
World War II or the Second World War was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies and the Axis powers. Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks and aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the deadliest conflict in history, causing the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea were occupied, and German and Japanese leaders were tried for war crimes.