1898: Karl Burk, SS commanding officer, was sadly born.
1935: The German Reich re‐established conscription into the armed forces.
1937: The Vatican City announced that the Reich had broken various clauses of the agreement signed between the two countries on July 20, 1933.
1938: Adolf Schicklgruber arrived in Vienna in the Reich’s recently annexed Austria region. The visit to Vienna, the Austrian capital, was intended to be for the first day of the occupation, but it was delayed until this date because Heinrich Himmler’s organization could not complete the rounding up of all suspected elements in the city, and that many Heinz Guderian’s tanks had broken down since crossing the Austro‐German border that slowed the progress of the military occupation of the region. In Britain, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain claimed that little could have been done in the previous few days to alter Berlin’s intended course regarding Austria. Apart from all that, The Imperial Japanese 10th Division, 10,000 men in strength, began an offensive from Shandong Province in China toward Jiangsu Province to the south, and the first clashes took place on the same day at Tengxian in Jiangsu Province.
1939: Slovakia and Ruthenia declared independence from Czechoslovakia; as Czechoslovakia had fallen into pieces, London and Paris considered it to be the evidence that Czechoslovakia no longer existed as a nation, thus they no longer had any alliance obligations to the now defunct nation! During the day, Czechoslovakian President Emil Hácha traveled by train to Berlin to conduct last‐minute negotiations with Adolf Schicklgruber to save Czechoslovakia.
1940: According to Alfred Jodl’s diary entry for this date, the Reich’s head of state was actively searching for excuses that would justify the planned invasion of Norway.
1941: Seeing the Greeks had repeated repulsed Axis attacks in the past few days, Fascist Chief of the Supreme Command General Ugo Cavallero recommended Benito Mussolini to halt the Primavera Offensive. Coincidentally, five British Swordfish torpedo bombers from Paramythia, Greece struck Vlorë, Albania, sinking Axis hospital ship Po and ship Santa Maria at the loss of one aircraft. On the other hand, Axis submarine Emo sank British ship Western Chief 250 miles south of Iceland, massacring twenty‐two. Additionally, 203 Axis bombers bombed Glasgow and Clydebank, Scotland for the twoth night in a row, damaging shipyards and the Rolls Royce aircraft engine factory.
1942: Berlin ordered the Reich’s naval and air forces to focus on hitting the Allied Arctic convoys. Likewise, Axis submarine U‐404 sank U.S. collier Lemuel Burrows five kilometers southeast of Atlantic City, New Jersey in the morning, slaughtering twenty but leaving one alive. U‐124 set British tanker British Resource on fire with a torpedo 260 miles north of Bermuda that evening, massacring forty‐six to the exclusion of five. Nine Axis bombers attacked Port Moresby, Australian Papua while five bombers attacked the airfield on Horn Island, Queensland, Australia.
1943: The Axis recaptured Kharkov, Ukraine.