* 1942 – Holocaust: Porajmos – Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz.

* Heinrich Georg Stahmer: German Ambassador to Japan ( 1942 – 1945 )

Dr Sigmund Rascher, an SS doctor based at Dachau, reported directly to Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler and publicised the results of his freezing experiments at the 1942 medical conference entitled " Medical Problems Arising from Sea and Winter ".

* German — Beckmann, Max: Pierrot and Mask ( 1920 ), Before the Masked Ball ( 1922 ), Carnival ( 1943 ); Campendonk, Heinrich: Pierrot with Mask ( 1916 ), Pierrot ( with Serpent ) ( 1923 ), Pierrot with Sunflower ( 1925 ); Faure, Amandus: Standing Artist and Pierrot ( 1909 ); Heckel, Erich: Dead Pierrot ( 1914 ); Hofer, Karl: Circus Folk ( c. 1921 ); Leman, Ulrich: The Juggler ( 1913 ); Macke, August: Many works, including Ballets Russes ( 1912 ), Clown ( Pierrot ) ( 1913 ), Face of Pierrot ( 1913 ), Pierrot and Woman ( 1913 ); Mammen, Jeanne: The Death of Pierrot ( n. d .); Nolde, Emil: Pierrot and White Lilies ( c. 1911 ), Women and Pierrot ( 1917 ); Schlemmer, Oskar: Pierrot and Two Figures ( 1923 ); Werner, Theodor: Pierrot lunaire ( 1942 ).

It is built near the site of the previous village of the same name which, as part of the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, was on orders from Adolf Hitler and Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, completely destroyed by German forces in reprisal for the assassination of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich in the late spring of 1942.

However, other senior Nazi officials, including Heinrich Himmler ( head of the SS ), Robert Ley ( leader of the DAF ), and Max Amann ( proprietor of the Zentral Verlag ( Central Press ), comprising 80 percent of the German press in 1942 ), endorsed the publication, and their statements were often published in Der Stürmer.

# Heinrich Pfyffer von Altishofen, Luzern ( 1942 – 1957 )

On 13 October 1941, SS and Police Leader Odilo Globocnik ( headquarters in Lublin ) received a verbal order from Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler to start immediate construction work on the first Aktion Reinhard camp at Bełżec, in the General Government, Poland ( operational March 1942 ).

It was invented by Heinrich Hock in 1944 and independently by R. Ūdris and P. Sergeyev in 1942 ( USSR ).

From 1939 to 1942 he was Heinrich Himmler's personal aide and a deputy chief in the Reich Main Security Office under Heydrich who answered only to Himmler.

* On Your Lovely Little Shoulder Dear ( На чудное плечико милой ; An Liebchens schneeweisse Schulter ) for voice and piano ( 1887 ); words by Heinrich Heine in translation by Vasily Pavlovich Fyodorov ( 1883 – 1942 )

On 18 September 1941, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler informed Greiser that he intended to transfer 60, 000 Czech and German Jews to the Łódź ghetto, until spring 1942 when they would be " resettled ".

* Heinrich Gomperz ( 1873 – 1942 ), Austrian philosopher

* 1942: Heinrich Sutermeister – Die Zauberinsel, 31 October 1942

Until 1942, it was the highest SS rank inferior only to Reichsführer-SS ( Heinrich Himmler ).

In the 1940s he moved back to Hollywood, California, and starred in a few films, such as Nazi Agent ( 1942 ), in which he had a dual role as a Nazi and as the Nazi's twin brother, but his best remembered role was as Major Heinrich Strasser in Casablanca ( 1942 ).

The factual basis for this aforementioned claim is that on October 9, 1942, the SS head Heinrich Himmler issued an order in which he stated, regarding the population of the Warsaw Ghetto: " I've issued orders and requested that all the so-called arms factories workers working only as tailors, furriers or bootmakers be grouped in the nearest concentration camps, that is in Warsaw and in Lublin.

# SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei Heinrich Seetzen ( June 1941 – July 1942 )

SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer was ( from 1942 to 1945 ) the highest commissioned SS rank with the exception of Reichsführer-SS, which was a special rank held by Heinrich Himmler.

In 1942 he approached Heinrich Himmler and asked him to give him an opportunity to sterilize women en masse for his experiments.

During the visit of Heinrich Himmler on July 18, 1942, Langefeld tried to get him to annul this order.

Heinrich Vogeler ( December 12, 1872 – 1942 ) was a German painter, designer, and architect, associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting.

After Heydrich's 1942 assassination, Himmler assumed the leadership of the RSHA, but in January 1943 Ernst Kaltenbrunner was appointed Chief of the RSHA.

On 21 June 1941, the day before invasion of the Soviet Union, Himmler commissioned the preparation of the Generalplan Ost ( General Plan for the East ); the plan was finalised in July 1942.

As in 1942, he was more outspoken about what was happening than Himmler would have liked: " Our state ’ s security requires that we take whatever measures seem necessary to protect the German community from Jewish threat ," he wrote in May.

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.

By 1942, with his power waning, Göring fell out of favor and was replaced in the Nazi hierarchy by Himmler.

Reichsfuhrer Himmler visited Zamość in August 1942 and ordered that the buildings of the old city be demolished immediately and replaced by a " German town ".

The debate ended in 1942 when Himmler signed the order marking the beginning of the mass deportations to Auschwitz.

On December 16, 1942, Himmler ordered that the Romani candidates for extermination should be deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Höss testified that Himmler visited the camp in 1942 and " watched in detail one processing from beginning to end ".

Himmler ordered the development of gas vans, and these were used by the Einsatzgruppen for mass killings from 1942.

Even more far-reaching were the plans to extend the " Final Solution " to India ; in the summer of 1942, the exiled Indian nationalist Subhas Chandra Bose living in Berlin asked Himmler for " special SS training " of Bose's fellow anti-British émigrés so that when the Germans reached India, there would be a cadre of SS-trained Indians to work with the Einsatzgruppen in killing the Jews of India.

On March 23, 1942, Himmler asked Oswald Pohl " to gradually develop a diet which, like that of Roman soldiers or Egyptian slaves, contains all the vitamins and is simple and cheap ".

In a letter to Himmler dated 30 May 1942, Greiser referred to an authorisation he had previously received from Himmler and Heydrich for the Sonderbehandlung ( Special Handling, execution without judicial process ) of 100, 000 Jews of the Wartheland, about one-third of the total Jewish population of that territory.

Equal on paper to the rank of Generalfeldmarschall, but in fact more akin to Reichsmarschall from 1942 onward as Himmler amassed ever greater power.

After making Wolff a full SS-Obergruppenführer, Himmler dismissed him in 1942.

Chiang also ordered Ma Bufang to put his Muslim soldiers on alert for an invasion of Tibet in 1942.

In 1942 Roosevelt ordered the internment of 100, 000 Japanese American civilians.

Alexander was promoted to Commander-in-Chief of Allied Land Forces in Burma, March 1942, and ordered Slim to abandon Mandalay and retreat to India.

In September 1942, after a meeting with Hitler, who was most unhappy with his Foreign Minister's actions, Ribbentrop promptly changed course and ordered that the deportations be resumed immediately.

In 1942, although still committed in his efforts to " launch a non-violent movement ", Gandhi clarified that the movement would not be stopped by individual acts of violence, saying that the " ordered anarchy " of " the present system of administration " was " worse than real anarchy.

In 1942, when the film came out, Roosevelt ordered it rushed to theaters.

In a retaliatory response on July 26, 1942, the Reichskommissar of the Netherlands, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, ordered the arrest of all Jewish converts, who had previously been spared.

Hitler was so confident of the success of Barbarossa that on 20 June 1941, two days before Barbarossa was to begin, he ordered that from 1 January 1942 the army was to go from first to third in regards to spending and allocation of raw materials to build up the Kriegsmarine and the Luftwaffe.

In response to protests from other senior officers that something was amiss as proven by the loss of the entire supply ship network in early 1941, in the middle of 1941 and again in the middle of 1942, Raeder ordered investigations into the security of German codes, but in both cases, it was concluded that the British were not reading German codes because the Enigma machine was considered to be unbreakable.

In early 1942, Raeder become involved in a scandal when it was discovered that he had abused his position to buy more groceries than the rationing permitted, but Hitler ordered the matter to be covered up.

The CJCS ordered for 1942 – 43 Pacific objectives: that Guadalcanal would be carried out in conjunction with an Allied offensive in New Guinea under Douglas MacArthur, to capture the Admiralty Islands and the Bismarck Archipelago, including the major Japanese base at Rabaul.

In preparation for the offensive in the Pacific in May 1942, U. S. Marine Major General Alexander Vandegrift was ordered to move his 1st Marine Division from the United States to New Zealand.

By June 1942 the main producer of gas vans, Gaubschat Fahrzeugwerke GmbH, delivered 20 gas vans in two models ( for 30-50 and 70-100 individuals ) to Einsatzgruppen, out of 30 ordered.

In September 1942, the Germans ordered all ghetto residents to report at Targowica Square, where they were subjected to a " Selektion " ( selection ) in which those deemed " unessential " were selected out for deportation to Belzec.

General Simon Bolivar Buckner ordered the creation of Fort Randall, an airbase on the shores of Cold Bay, in 1942 as a part of a general expansion of American assets in the Aleutians.

After the St. Nazaire Raid, on April 13, 1942 Adolf Hitler ordered naval and submarine bases to be heavily defended.

That tour ended in July 1942, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered congressmen serving in the military to resign one of the two positions, and Lodge, who chose to remain in the Senate, was ordered by Secretary of War Henry Stimson to return to Washington.

In 1906, the couple's vacation home on Jekyll Island was completed ; nicknamed " Indian Mound ", the 25-room " cottage " remained in the family until ordered evacuated in 1942 by the U. S. government ; five years later the entire island was purchased by the state of Georgia, and decades later it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Rockefeller Cottage.

In late May 1942, as the Afrika Korps prepared to attack Bir Hakeim, Koenig ordered Travers and other women out of the area.

A Jewish survivor of Jasenovac, Egon Berger, has described Filipović ’ s sadistic killing of children, while two other witnesses, Šimo Klaić and Dragutin Škrgatić: Klaić recalls that in Christmas 1942, Miroslav ordered mass and later a muster, where he killed four inmates with a knife, while forcing a Jew of Sarajevo, Alkalaj, to sing, then ordering Alkalaj to near him, stabbing him in the chest and slashing his throat.

During the Japanese occupation of Thailand in 1942 POWs both allies and Asian laborers were ordered by the Japanese to build a Thailand-Burma railway.