Thousands of refugees flee south, although they are strafed by Japanese aircraft. Many sail from southern India, attempting to get to Australia or South Africa. The first Me-262 jet fighter flies. After initial tests it is put into production in parallel with the He-280. The worlds first production helicopter, the Fl-282 Kolibri, goes into service in Germany in an observation role.
Rumours begin to surface that various concentration camps are haunted.
Occasionally camp guards go mad or commit suicide. The SS Black Angel Brigades begin to replace other troops as camp guards. Certain battlefields and sites of massacres also gain a reputation as haunted. A junta of three superhumans, Dr Destiny, Firestorm and Lillith, takes over Peru. They are Revelationists, intent on rebuilding the purifying the country so that its population is ready to face the Lords judgement when it inevitably arrives.