March 1941

the éphéméride | all on March and 1941.

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• March 1st:

• Himmler visit Auschwitz and orders an enlarging of the camp as well as the construction of a second camp with Birkenau.

• March 2nd:

• German the Armée twelfth leaves the Romania for the Bulgaria.

• March 4th:

• Unloading of British troops in Greece to continue the engagements against the Italians.

• March 7th:

• the first elements of the British Task force arrive in the Greek ports.

• March 9th:

• German the Armée twelfth positions on the border between the Bulgaria and the Greece.

• March 11th:

• the president Franklin Delano Roosevelt sign the law of lease-lend authorizing the loan and the hiring of material soldiers to the “friendly nations”.

• March 16th:

• Very violent one German air raid on Bristol-board.

• March 24th:

• Raid of the Royal Air Force on Berlin.

• March 25th:

• Signature by the Tripartite Yugoslavia of the Pact by the Prince Prince Paul, regent of Yugoslavia.

• March 26th:

• Coup d'etat in Serbia, reversing the government pro-German of the regent, prince Paul, and establishing the young king Pierre II.

• March 27th:

• Hitler gives a directive to conquer the Yugoslavia by a lightning war, in collaboration with the Italy, the Bulgaria and the Hungary.

• March 28th:

• British naval Victoire on the Italian navy with the Cape Matapan.

• March 30th:

• Adolf Hitler declares with its generals that the war in the East will be a war of extermination.
• air Attaque on Brest where are in particular based the German cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau .

• March 31st:

• the Afrika Korps ordered by Rommel begins the German offensive in North Africa.

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