During the conference, Roosevelt announces the war can end only with an unconditional German surrender. Montgomery's Eighth Army takes Tripoli. Germans surrender at Stalingrad in the first big defeat of Hitler's armies. Soviet troops take Kursk. Feb. 14-25.Battle of Kasserine Pass between the U.S. 1st Armored Division and German Panzers in North Africa.
Soviets re-take Kharkov.
Nazis arrest White Rose resistance leaders in Munich. Germans begin a withdrawal from Tunisia, Africa. Germans re-capture Kharkov. Axis forces in Tunisia begin a withdrawal toward Enfidaville as American and British forces link. Waffen SS attacks Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto.