This Week in WWII – 2nd Week of November

1918

WWI ends.

1938

Kristallnacht – “The Night of Broken Glass.” German citizens loot and burn 7000+ Jewish businesses, homes, and synagogues. 30,000 Jews are arrested and sent to Concentration Camps. Assassination attempt on Hitler by Maurice Bavaud at Obersalxburg.

1939

Assassination attempt on Hitler by Oster Group at Reichskanlei.

1942

2nd battle of Guadalcanal begins.

1944

Axis forces in Greece surrender. 8th Air Force attacks Cologne, Germany. Nazi battleship, Tirpitz, is sunk by RAF bombers.

 

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