As early as September 1942, Dr. Johann Paul Kremer, M. D., an SS physician, witnessed a gassing of prisoners, and in his diary wrote: " They don't call Auschwitz the camp of annihilation Lager der Vernichtung for nothing!

In 1942, Lager Norderney, containing Russian and Polish POWs, and Lager Sylt, holding Jews, were placed under the control of SS Hauptsturmführer Max List.

In 1942, Lager Norderney, containing Russian and Polish POWs, and Lager Sylt, holding Jews, were placed under the control of the SS Hauptsturmführer Max List.

Besides those six camps, there existed the little-known Maly Trostenets extermination camp, at Minsk, Belarus, in the anti-Communist Lokot Republic ( July 1942 – August 1943 ) established in the Nazi-occupied USSR ; similar camps existed at Warsaw and Janowska.

On his orders, by spring 1942 the camp at Auschwitz had been greatly expanded, including the addition of gas chambers, where victims were killed using the pesticide Zyklon B.

* 1942 – The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.

* 1942 – The Holocaust: the Treblinka extermination camp is opened.

50 stills from the filming in Krün near Mittenwald were later found and from these, surviving prisoners were able to identify 29 camp inmates who worked for Riefenstahl and were then deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in the first weeks of March 1943 following Himmler ’ s December 1942 decree.

In early 1942, prisoners at Dachau concentration camp were used by Rascher in experiments to perfect ejection seats at high altitudes.

* 1942 – Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.

Prince William Forest Park ( then known as Chopawamsic Recreational Demonstration Area ) was the site of an OSS training camp that operated from 1942 to 1945.

* 1942 – On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1, 000 Jews of Pidhaytsi ( west Ukraine ) to Belzec extermination camp.

Spring 1942: the Nazi Germany | Nazi German extermination camp Treblinka extermination camp | Treblinka II opens in Occupation of Poland ( 1939 – 1945 ) | occupied Poland near the village of Treblinka, Masovian Voivodeship | Treblinka

Between April 1942 and October 1943, at least 160, 000 people are killed in the camp.

Franz Stangl restored order in the camp, and the transports of Warsaw and Radom Jews began to arrive again on September 3, 1942.

This hair was used " in the manufacture of hair-yarn socks for ' U '- boat crews and hair-felt foot-wear for the Reichs-railway ", to quote from a directive sent to all concentration camp commanders in 1942.

Although she moved from Germany to the Netherlands to avoid Nazi persecution, in 1942 she was arrested and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she died in the gas chamber.

Stein and her sister Rosa, also a convert, were captured and shipped to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where they are presumed to have been gassed on August 9, 1942 when Edith was 50.

Yoneda arrived at Manzanar on March 22, 1942, one of the first Japanese Americans to arrive as a volunteer to build the camp.

Of them, 560 would be deported to Drancy internment camp on 31 August 1942.

Captain Frank D. Carranza conceived the idea of using the Basque language for codes in May 1942 upon meeting about 60 U. S. Marines of Basque ancestry in a San Francisco camp.

The third and last commandant of the camp was Hermann Pister ( 1942 – 1945 ).

The camp was also a site of large-scale trials for vaccines against epidemic typhus in 1942 and 1943.

Walter was drafted into the armed forces in 1942, however, the end of the war found 24 year old Fritz in a Prisoner of War camp in Máramarossziget in which he played with Hungarian and Slovakian guards.

Shortly after he volunteered for the U. S. Army in February 1942, Munemori's parents and siblings were incarcerated at the Manzanar concentration camp for Japanese Americans.

On the morning of 14 June 1942, the train halted on a railway siding at the concentration camp at Ravensbrück.

* Islandia ( 1942 ), by Austin Tappan Wright, an imaginary island in the Southern Hemisphere, a utopia containing many Arcadian elements, including a policy of isolation from the outside world and a rejection of industrialism.

The area containing the Shan States and Kayah State was annexed by Thailand in 1942.

It was one of the primary trees used in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's " Great Plains Shelterbelt " WPA project, which was launched in 1934 as an ambitious plan to modify weather and prevent soil erosion in the Great Plains states, and by 1942 resulted in the planting of 30, 233 shelterbelts containing 220 million trees that stretched for.

Between July 1942 and September 1944, almost every Tuesday a cargo train left for the concentration camps Auschwitz-Birkenau ( 65 train-loads containing 60, 330 people most of whom were gassed on arrival ), Sobibór ( 19 train-loads of 34, 313 people, all of whom were killed on arrival ), Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt ( 9 train-loads of 4, 894 people some 2, 000 of whom survived the war ).

The Board of Education on January 9, 1942, adopted a resolution containing recitals taken largely from the Court's Gobitis opinion and ordering that the salute to the flag become " a regular part of the program of activities in the public schools ," that all teachers and pupils " shall be required to participate in the salute honoring the Nation represented by the Flag ; provided, however, that refusal to salute the Flag be regarded as an Act of insubordination, and shall be dealt with accordingly.

In March 1942, the War Production Board's first rationing act had a direct effect on the manufacture of suits and all clothing containing wool.

Between June and November 1942 it was a Mixed Division containing the 34th Army Tank Brigade, ( replaced in September by the 25th ).

His debut album, containing a few devotional songs in Kannada and Hindi, was released by HMV the next year in 1942.

The Alpha Galates published a periodical called Vaincre-Pour une jeune chevalerie (" Conquer-for the young knighthood "), that lasted for six issues between September 1942 and February 1943, containing an anti-Semitic and anti-Masonic agenda ; Plantard's disregard of the prohibition by the German authorities of the formation of the Alpha Galates earned him a four-month sentence in Fresnes Prison.

* USA: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's " Great Plains Shelterbelt " WPA project, which was launched in 1934 as an ambitious plan to modify weather and prevent soil erosion in the Great Plains states, and by 1942 resulted in the planting of 30, 233 shelterbelts containing 220 million trees that stretched for 18, 600 miles.

Lyra: An anthology of new lyric ( 1942 ), edited by Alex Comfort and Robert Greacen, was a representative poetry anthology published by Grey Walls, containing new writing of the time.

Between March 1942 and January 1944 Stuart worked as part of the Redaktion-Irland ( also sometimes referred to as Irland-Redaktion, " Editorial Ireland " in English ) team, reading radio broadcasts containing Nazi propaganda which were aimed at and heard in Ireland.

* 1876 – Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator ( d. 1942 )

* 1942 – Valentin Lebedev, Russian cosmonaut

* 1942 – Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian author and dissident

* 1942 – Valentina Titova, Russian actress

* 1942 – Vasily Alexeev, Russian weightlifter

* Ivan Sergeyevich Kuznetsov ( 1867 – 1942 ), Russian architect

Ruslan Imranovich Khasbulatov () ( born November 22, 1942 ) is a Russian economist and politician of Chechen descent who played a central role in the events leading to the 1993 constitutional crisis in the Russian Federation.

In retaliation, Warner-during his 1947 testmony before Congress, for making the 1942 Russian propaganda film Mission to Moscow – accused a number of studio employees of having ties to Communists.

Russian refugees near Battle of Stalingrad | Stalingrad, 1942

American Trotskyist leader James P. Cannon, in his 1942 book History of American Trotskyism, wrote that " Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and practiced in the Russian revolution and in the early days of the Communist International.

Sydnor pointed out that Hitler had received an SS report in November 1942 which contained a mention of 363, 211 Russian Jews executed by the Einsatzgruppen between August – November 1942.

The 1942 Casablanca centers on the development of conscience in the cynical American Rick Blaine ( Humphrey Bogart ) in the face of oppression by the Nazis and the example of the resistance leader Victor Laszlo. The David Lean and Robert Bolt screenplay for Doctor Zhivago ( an adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel ) focuses strongly on the conscience of a doctor-poet in the midst of the Russian Revolution ( in the end " the walls of his heart were like paper "). The 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner focuses on the struggles of conscience between and within a bounty hunter ( Rick Deckard ( Harrison Ford )) and a renegade replicant android ( Roy Batty ( Rutger Hauer )) in a future society which refuses to accept that forms of artificial intelligence can have aspects of being such as conscience.

In 1942, al-Husseini helped organize Arab students and North African emigres in Germany into the " Arabisches Freiheitkorps ," an Arab Legion in the German Army that hunted down Allied parachutists in the Balkans and fought on the Russian front.

It was also used as a staging area for the Imperial Russian fleet under Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky prior to the Battle of Tsushima in 1905, and by the Japanese Imperial Navy in preparation for the invasion of Malaysia in 1942.

When Toscanini gave the American premiere of Shostakovich's Seventh (" Leningrad ") Symphony in 1942 in which the maestro heard the " suffering of the Russian people " at the hands of the German invaders, Haggin, his greatest and most perceptive admirer, dissented, declaring it " an inflated monstrosity of straining, portentous banality.

It was adapted into a theatrical animated film, Bambi, by Walt Disney Studios in 1942, two Russian live-action adaptations in 1985 and 1986, and a stage production in 1998.

* Suite, Russian Melodies ( 1942 – 43 )

Wounded in action in Russia in August 22, 1942, he had the Iron Cross First and Second Classes for bravery, the Eastern Front Medal ( during the especially bitter Russian winter of ' 41 /' 42 ) or the Wound Badge.

* Clubhouse — designed by Bernard Maybeck in 1903, completed in 1904 on a bluff overlooking the Russian River ; a multi-purpose dining, drinking and entertainment building ; the site of the Manhattan Project planning meeting held in 1942.

* November 7-Sabina Spielrein ( k. 1942 ), Russian psychoanalyst

" Mystery of Pseudo-Dionys Areopagit ( a monograph ), Tbilisi, 1942 ( in Russian, English summary )

CAM sailings resumed on 6 March 1942 on North Atlantic convoys and in April on the Arctic Russian convoys with a RAF aircraft maintenance unit in Archangelsk.