the éphéméride | all on December and 1941.

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• December:

• Creation of the first “proletarian brigade” by Tito in Yugoslavia.
• Publication of the first number of the newspapers of French resistance Christian Testimony and Franc-tireur

• December 3rd:

• Władysław Sikorski gives to Stalin an incomplete list comprising the names of: 30845 Polish officers who were prisoners in the USSR and who do not give any more any signs of life.

• December 4th:

• Władysław Sikorski sign with Stalin a continuation agreement to which the Polish forces in the USSR were to be carried to: 96000 men; Władysław Sikorski succeeds in obtaining the authorization of Stalin to evacuate: 25000 Polish soldiers towards the Iran to supplement the Polish Armed forces with the the Middle East.

• December 5th:

• the the United Kingdom declares the war with the Finland, the Hungary and the Romania.
• Soviet Counter-offensive releasing Moscow.

• December 7th:

• Japanese Air raids on Pearl Harbor, Hong-Kong, Singapore, the Malaysia, the Thailand and Shanghai.

• December 8th:

• the Japan invades the Malaysia.
• the Japan declares the war with the E. - U., with the the United Kingdom and the Australia.
• the Death camp of Chełmno, close to Łódź, becomes operational (it is the first death camp on the Polish territories annexed to Reich).

• December 10th:

• British Failure of the battleship HMS Prince de Galles run by air attack Japan ease.
• the American garrison of Guam capitulates.
• the British troops take again Tobrouk.

• December 11th:

• the Germany and the Italy declare the war with the the United States by solidarity with the Japan. The the United States declare the war with the Germany and the Italy.

• December 12th:

• the the United Kingdom declares the war with the Bulgaria after the latter declared the war with the the United Kingdom and with the the United States.

• December 14th:

• Beginning of the battle of Gazala (Libya); the Poles of the autonomous Brigade of the hunters of Carpates take part in it.
• 100 hostages shot by the Germans in Paris.

• December 16th:

• the Japan invades Borneo.
• Lez Soviet takes again Kalinine (Tver).

• December 17th:

• Beginning of the seat of Sébastopol.

• December 18th:

• the troops Japan eases unload on the island of Hong-Kong.

• December 19th:

• Adolf Hitler takes the direct command of the Wehrmacht.

• December 20th:

• the German troops beat a retreat in front of Moscow.

• December 21st:

• Following the failures on the face of the east, Hitler takes the command of the armies personally.

• December 22nd:

• the Conference Arcadia, with Washington, between Churchill and Roosevelt, led to the definition of a general strategy giving the priority to the fight against the Reich; the American persons in charge recognize the need, for the allied forces, to neutralize as fast as possible and in a decisive way the German threat.
• Japanese Unloading with the Filipino .

• December 24th:

• Rallying of Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon to the Free French Army of the de Gaulle General.

• December 25th:

• Rendering of Hong-Kong.

• December 27th:

• the Soviet Union parachute a first group of Polish Communists, devoted to Soviet, in the old Eastern borders of the Poland to reconstitute the Communist party dissolved in 1938 there and to counterbalance there the influence of resistant which had been activated as soon as the Germans had penetrated there.

• December 30th:

• the autonomous Brigade of the hunters of Carpates takes part in the battle of El-Bardia before going to occupy of the defensive positions around El Gazala.

• December 31st:

• Jean Moulin leaves London to be parachuted in France.

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