* 1943 – World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

In October 1943, shortly before he was to be arrested by the German police, Niels Bohr escaped to Sweden with his family, later travelling to London and on to work on the Manhattan Project.

* 1943 – The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.

* 1983 – Rolf Stommelen, German race car driver ( b. 1943 )

* Wilhelm Biltz ( 1877 – 1943 ), German chemist and scientific editor

( German armed forces, June 1943 )

Later, following the German surrender in January 1943, roughly 100, 000 German soldiers were taken prisoner of war ( POW ).

* Sale, Tony, The Colossus Computer 1943 – 1996: How It Helped to Break the German Lorenz Cipher in WWII ( M .& M.

* 1943 – Bodo Tümmler, German middle-distance runner

* 1943 – World War II – After eight days of brutal house-to-house fighting, the battle of Ortona concludes with the victory of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division over the German 1st Parachute Division and the capture of the Italian town of Ortona.

February 14, 1943 ) was a German mathematician.

* 1943 – World War II: German warship Scharnhorst is sunk off of Norway's North Cape after a battle against major Royal Navy forces.

* 1943 – World War II: The Massacre of Kalavryta by German occupying forces in Greece.

* 1943 – World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.

* 1943 – Gert Wünsche, German footballer

Mussolini was rescued from arrest by German forces and led the German client state, the Italian Social Republic from 1943 to 1945.

During World War II the city experienced a year-long German occupation ( 1943 – 1944 ) and was declared an open city.

Soviet partisans hanged by German forces in January 1943

The first five months of 1943 witnessed thousands of arrests and executions as the Gestapo exercised their powers over the German public.

The German opposition was in an unenviable position by the late spring and early summer of 1943.

From 1943 forward, he was both Chief of German Police and Minister of the Interior, overseeing all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo ( Secret State Police ).

On 4 October 1943, during a secret meeting with top SS officials in the city of Poznań ( Posen ), and on 6 October 1943, in a speech to the party elite — the Gau and Reich leaders — Himmler referred explicitly to the " extermination " ( German: Ausrottung ) of the Jewish people.

* Thomas Mann, in his fictional biblical tetralogy Joseph and His Brothers ( 1933 – 1943 ), makes Akhenaten the " dreaming pharaoh " of Joseph's story.

Pope Leo XIII ( 1810 – 1903 ) condemned secular biblical scholarship in his encyclical Providentissimus Deus ; but in 1943 Pope Pius XII gave license to the new scholarship in his encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu: " extual criticism ... quite rightly employed in the case of the Sacred Books ... Let the interpreter then, with all care and without neglecting any light derived from recent research, endeavor to determine the peculiar character and circumstances of the sacred writer, the age in which he lived, the sources written or oral to which he had recourse and the forms of expression he employed.

The term was coined in 1943 by the German biblical scholar Martin Noth to explain the origin and purpose of Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings: these, he argued, were the work of a single 6th century historian seeking to explain recent events ( the fall of Jerusalem and the Babylonian exile ) using the theology and language of the book of Deuteronomy.

* 1943: Encyclical Mediator Dei, opening biblical research to Catholic scholars

* August 10 – Lawrence Binyon, English poet and scholar ( d. 1943 )

Robert Laurence Binyon, CH ( 10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943 ) was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar.

In autumn 1943, he traveled to occupied France, where he rejoined Emil Cioran, also meeting with scholar Georges Dumézil and the collaborationist writer Paul Morand.

The Pushkin Press published a translation in 1937 ( reprinted 1943 ) by the Oxford scholar Oliver Elton, with illustrations by M. V.

Seyyed Mohammad Khatami (, ; born September 29, 1943 ) is an Iranian scholar, Shia theologian, and Reformist politician.

* August 10-Lawrence Binyon, poet and scholar ( died 1943 )

The couple had six children: Julia Romana Howe ( 1844 – 1886 ) married Michael Anagnos, a Greek scholar who succeeded Dr. Howe as director of the Perkins Institute ; Florence Marion Howe ( 1845 – 1922 ), an author, she wrote a well-known treatise on manners and was married to lawyer David Prescott Hall ; Henry Marion Howe ( 1848 – 1922 ), a metallurgist who lived in New York ; Laura Elizabeth Howe ( 1850 – 1943 ), a Pulitzer prize-winning author, she was married to Henry Richards and lived in Maine ; Maud Howe ( 1855 – 1948 ), a Pulitzer prize-winning author, she was married to an English muralist and illustrator, John Elliott ; Samuel Gridley Howe, Jr. ( 1858 – 1863 ).

William Warren " Bill " Bradley ( born July 28, 1943 ) is an American hall of fame basketball player, Rhodes scholar, and former three-term Democratic U. S. Senator from New Jersey.

He was educated at Merchant Taylors ' School and graduated from St John's College, Oxford, in 1943, with a BA in modern languages, having for two years been its organ scholar and choirmaster.

1943 in journalism ) was a scholar of Texas women authors, particularly Jane Gilmore Rushing.

* Bill Bradley ( born 1943 ), American basketball player, Rhodes scholar, and former US senator from New Jersey

Thomas Alan Shippey ( born 9 September 1943 ) is a scholar of medieval literature, including that of Anglo-Saxon England, medievalism, and of modern fantasy and science fiction, in particular the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, about whom he has written several scholarly studies.

Abbott Lawrence Lowell ( December 13, 1856 – January 6, 1943 ) was a U. S. educator and legal scholar.

* Rafiq Hussain was the first scholar in undivided India to obtain a Ph. D in Urdu Poetry of Allama Iqbal in 1943.

John Shattuck ( born 1943 ) is an international legal scholar and human rights leader, became the fourth President and Rector of Central European University ( CEU ) in August 2009.

* Dilly Knox ( 1884 – 1943 ), British codebreaker and classical scholar at King's College, Cambridge

* In the novel Perelandra ( 1943 ) by C. S. Lewis, the theme of the fall is explored in the context of a new Garden of Eden with a new, green-skinned Adam and Eve on the planet Venus, and with the protagonist-the Cambridge scholar Dr.

Halliwell was a classics scholar at Wirral Grammar School, where he gained his Higher School Certificate in 1943.

( 1868 – 1943 ), Irish scholar and priest

* Vincent McNabb ( 1868 – 1943 ), Irish scholar and priest

Alfred Dillwyn ' Dilly ' Knox CMG ( 23 July 1884 – 27 February 1943 ) was a classics scholar at King's College, Cambridge, and a British codebreaker.

Francis Macdonald Cornford, FBA, ( 27 February 1874 – 3 January 1943 ) was an English classical scholar and poet ; because of the similarity of his name and his wife's, he was known to family as " FMC " and his wife Frances Cornford was known as " FCC ".

* Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Cornford, Francis Macdonald ( 1874 – 1943 ), classical scholar by Reginald Hackforth, rev.