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.

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.

In January 1940, Menzies dispatched potential leadership rival Richard Casey to Washington as Australia's first " Minister to the United States ".

* 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.

A bond issue which would have provided some $3.5 million for construction of the two 900-student schools was defeated by district voters in January.

* Wartime film of the construction of the Mosquito in Australia Retrieved: 3 January 2012.

In anticipation of increased regional air traffic to the facility, an EU-subsidized construction project began in January of that year, intended to upgrade the terminal building and extend the primary paved runway to a usable length of 4000 feet.

The construction would begin in January 2011, and has been targeted for completion by May 2013, before APEC Summit in Bali.

On January 19, 2010, Wyandotte County approved the bonds to help finance the stadium, and on January 20 the groundbreaking ceremony was made, with Wizards CEO Robb Heineman using heavy machinery to move dirt on the construction site.

Moreover, the nationwide land leveling and rezoning campaign initiated by Kim Jong Il in Kangwon province in May 1998 and in North Pyongan province in January 2000 facilitated the construction of provincial and county fiber optic lines, which were laid by tens of thousands of KPA soldier-builders and provincial shock brigade members mobilized for the large-scale public works projects designed to rehabilitate the hundreds of thousands of hectares of arable lands devastated by the natural disasters in the late 1990s.

In November 1938, Walther von Brauchitsch ordered construction of an A-4 Production Plant at Peenemünde, and in January 1939, Walter Dornberger created a subsection of Wa Pruf 11 for planning the Peenemünde Production Plant project, headed by G. Schubert, a senior Army civil servant.

One of the S-IV test stages was shipped to McDonnell Douglas for the construction of a mock-up in January 1970.

* January 9 – January 11 – Aswan High Dam construction begins in Egypt.

On January 8, 1863, Governor Leland Stanford ceremoniously broke ground in Sacramento, California, to begin construction of the Central Pacific Railroad.

It was in here on January 28, 1848 that James Marshall met privately with Sutter in order to show Sutter the gold that Marshall had found during the construction of Sutter's sawmill along the American River only four days earlier.

In January 2009 plans to build the new £ 300 million multi-purpose stadium on the site of The Maze were cancelled, with politicians saying plans to start the construction of the stadium would not be reconsidered until at least 2012.

As part of the Heart of Slough project, construction work on a new bus station began in March 2010 following weeks of demolition work to half of the existing bus station and the removal of Compair House near the railway station ; it is expected to be completed by January 2011.

On 4 January 1939 Raeder advised Hitler that given the Kriegsmarines status as third in regards to allocation of resources and spending behind the Army and the Air Force, the construction targets could not be met within the deadlines given.

Although construction began in January 2003, by the end of the year the managing company had dissolved.

* 23 January: The LVF shot dead Catholic construction worker Liam Conway ( 39 ) on Hesketh Road, Belfast.

In January 2005, a controversial addition 1 % educational sales tax for the funding of construction of education facilities came into effect.

On 29 January 1990 the section between Blackfriars and Farringdon was temporarily closed to permit the construction of a new alignment.

In January 2007 construction started on the third platform, opened as platform 4 in May 2007

Designed by Argentine architect César Pelli and Filipino-Malaysian Engineer Deejay Cerico under the consultancy of J. C. Guinto, and Filipino Designer Dominic " Minick " Saibo, the Petronas Towers were planning started on 1 January 1992 after rigorous tests and simulations of wind and structural loads on the design after seven years of construction and became the tallest buildings in the world, It was excavators began digging down 30 metres below the surface of the site on 1 March 1993.

But with construction of the bridge to Lewiston in 1823, and especially after arrival of the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad from Portland in January 1848, the community developed into a mill town.

In January 2007, the courthouse briefly caught fire again when sparks from a construction worker's welding tool ignited building materials on the roof.