but after war came to Europe, he decided to return to France, arriving there in January, 1940.

Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss was overall commandant of the Auschwitz complex from May 1940 – November 1943 ; Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel from November 1943 – May 1944 ; and Sturmbannführer Richard Baer from May 1944 – January 1945.

Weil returned to France via Sweden and the United Kingdom, and was detained at Le Havre in January 1940.

The StuG III was the most-produced German armored fighting vehicle of any type built during the war years, with some 9, 400 examples built from January 1940 through March 1945.

They were married on 3 January 1940.

He was mentioned in despatches on 9 August 1940 and 21 March 1941 and awarded the Distinguished Service Order in January 1941.

In 1933 Wells predicted in The Shape of Things to Come that the world war he feared would begin January 1940, a prediction which ultimately came true just four months early, when the Second World War broke out in September 1939.

Their Complex Number Calculator, completed January 8, 1940, was able to calculate complex numbers.

James Orsen " Jim " Bakker ( pronounced " Baker "; born January 2, 1940 ) is an American televangelist, a former Assemblies of God minister, convicted felon, and a former host ( with his then-wife Tammy Faye Bakker ) of The PTL Club, a popular evangelical Christian television program.

Voroshilov commanded Soviet troops during the Winter War from November 1939 to January 1940, but, due to his poor planning and overall incompetence, the Red Army suffered about 185, 000 casualties.

In January 1940, construction began on a secret plant, code named " Hochwerk " ( High factory ), for the production of tabun at Dyherrnfurth an der Oder ( now Brzeg Dolny in Poland ), on the Oder River from Breslau ( now Wrocław ) in Silesia.

Because of the plant's deep secrecy and the difficult nature of the production process, it took from January 1940 until June 1942 for the plant to become fully operational.

The Pope's appointment of two Jews to the Vatican Academy of Science as well as the hiring of Almagia were reported by The New York Times in the editions of 11 November 1939, and 10 January 1940.

Excerpt of protocol of Politburo meeting of 17 January 1940 noting the decision to put 457 persons on trial and to execute 346 of them with the rest ( 111 ) being sent to GULAG

The Wannsee Villa, which the Stiftung Nordhav acquired in November 1940, was the site of the Wannsee Conference ( 20 January 1942 ).

" Premiered respectively by Prokofiev ( No. 6: 8 April 1940 ), Sviatoslav Richter ( No. 7: Moscow, 18 January 1943 ) and Emil Gilels ( No. 8: Moscow, 30 December 1944 ), they were subsequently championed in particular by Richter.

* January 17 – Gary Gilmore, American murderer ( executed ) ( b. 1940 )

* January 30 – Luke Kelly, Irish folk singer ( b. 1940 )

The 1940s was the decade that started on January 1, 1940, and ended on December 31, 1949.

* January 6 – Hugh Rodman, American admiral ( d. 1940 )

* January 26 – Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist ( d. 1940 )

* January 18 – Aleksandr Almetov, Soviet Olympic ice hockey player ( b. 1940 )

* January 30 – Eddie Collins, American vaudeville-veteran comic ( d. 1940 )

Between May 1940 and January 1945, around 1. 1 million people will be killed here.

He continued as federal Treasurer until January 1966, when Menzies finally retired.

From 24 January 1941 Menzies spent four months in Britain discussing war strategy with Churchill and other Empire leaders, while his position at home deteriorated.

In January 1941, Menzies flew to Britain to discuss the weakness of Singapore's defences and sat with Winston Churchill's British War Cabinet.

## Ted Menzies, Minister of State ( Finance ) ( January 4, 2011 )

## Ted Menzies ( January 4, 2011 )

Major General Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, KCB, KCMG, DSO, MC (; 30 January 1890 – 29 May 1968 ) was Chief of MI6 ( SIS ), British Secret Intelligence Service, during and after World War II.

Menzies, who was promoted to major-general in January 1944, also supported efforts to contact anti-Nazi resistance, including Wilhelm Canaris, the anti-Nazi head of Abwehr, in Germany.

A television series spin-off from the film, starring Gregory Harrison as Logan 5 and Heather Menzies as Jessica 6, lasted one season of 14 episodes, from September 16, 1977, through January 16, 1978, on U. S. television ( CBS-TV ).

On 15 November 1939, Menzies announced the reintroduction of conscription for home defence service effective 1 January 1940.

* January 7-Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight ( from Australia to New Zealand ) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing his Avro Sports Avian on New Zealand's west coast.

* 7 January 1931-Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight ( from Australia to New Zealand ) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.

In January 1953, in response to increasing pressure from the commercial lobby, the Menzies government amended the Broadcasting Act 1948 to allow for the granting of commercial licenses, thus providing the legislative framework for a dual system of TV ownership.

The Sixth Menzies Ministry was the thirty-seventh Australian Commonwealth ministry, and ran from 9 July 1954 to 11 January 1956.

The Seventh Menzies Ministry was the thirty-eighth Australian Commonwealth ministry, and ran from 11 January 1956 to 10 December 1958.

The Tenth Menzies Ministry was the forty-first Australian Commonwealth ministry, and ran from 18 December 1963 to 21 January 1966.

" Shelled UN building used by Hamas " say Israeli defense officials, Jerusalem Post and Associated Press, 15 January 2009 For instance, concerning the U. S. use of white phosphorus in Iraq, the British Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman Sir Menzies Campbell, said

On January 4, 2011, Menzies was promoted to Minister of State with the finance portfolio and was sworn of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada.