![]() The fortunes of Germany's Axis allies were turning as well. ![]() The Western Desert Campaign had ended with British victory and the Axis were in Tunisia between two Allied forces-one advancing from Algeria and one from Libya. In North Africa, the Afrika Korps under Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was being brought close to defeat, when German supply ships sailing to Tripoli were sunk by the Allies during January. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill demanded Germany's unconditional surrender, and the Soviets, spurred by their victory, were beginning to retake territory, including Kursk (8 February), Rostov (14 February), and Kharkiv (16 February). At the Casablanca Conference, Franklin D. ![]() ![]() On 2 February the Battle of Stalingrad ended with the surrender of Field Marshal Paulus and the German 6th Army to the Soviets. Compared to the previous year, 1943 started inauspiciously, with Germany suffering major military problems on all fronts. ![]()
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