Second world war: March 1941
Chronology of the Second world war
- February 1941 - March 1941 - April 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.
- the first elements of the British Task force arrive in the Greek ports.
- the president Franklin Delano Roosevelt sign the law of lease-lend allowing authorizing the loan and the hiring of material soldiers the “friendly nations”.
- Very violent one German air raid on Bristol-board.
- Raid of the Royal Air Force on Berlin.
- Signature by the Tripartite Yugoslavia of the Pact by the Prince Paul, regent of Yugoslavia.
- Coup d'etat in Serbia, reversing the government pro-German of the regent, prince Paul, and establishing the young king Pierre II.
- Hitler gives a directive to conquer the Yugoslavia by a lightning war, in collaboration with the Italy, the Bulgaria and the Hungary.
- British naval Victoire on the Italian navy with the Cape Matapan.
- 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 .
- the Afrika Korps ordered by Rommel begins the German offensive in North Africa.
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Mars:
- Tests of the first experimental radar airborne American
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