page_title: June 1943
section_title: June 10, 1943 (Thursday)
hierarchical_section_title: June 1943 / June 10, 1943 (Thursday)
caption_attribution_description: Español: Tarjeta postal con el retrato del Presidente de facto Pedro Ramirez.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in June 1943:
context_section_description: The Pointblank directive was issued by the Combined Chiefs of Staff of the Allied powers, to implement Operation Pointblank, the code name for the constant Combined Bomber Offensive.  The highest priority target to be destroyed was Germany's aircraft industry, followed by producers of ball bearings, petroleum, grinding wheels and abrasives.  The U.S. Eighth Air Force bombed Germany during daylight and the UK's Royal Air Force Bomber Command conducted heavier bombing at night.
   
  Germany and Italy gave diplomatic recognition to the new government of Argentina, the only nation in the Western Hemisphere that still maintained relations with the Axis powers.  That night, however, the new regime of General Pedro Ramírez decreed that the German, Italian and Japanese would no longer have permission to transmit up to 100 words in code to their capitals, a privilege that had been extended back in December.  The U.S. and the U.K. gave recognition to the Ramírez government the next day.
  The Berlin Gemeinde, the last Jewish hospital in the German capital, was closed, and its 200 employees and 300 patients were sent to Theresienstadt on June 16.
caption: President Pedro Ramirez
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