70 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries
Shows diary entries from seventy-one years ago, using today's date in Hong Kong as the starting point. To see pages from earlier dates (they go back to 1 Dec 1941), choose the date below and click the 'Apply' button.
2 Feb 1943, R. E. Jones Wartime diary
Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2013-02-01 20:25Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 2 Feb 19432 Feb 1943, Chronology of Events Related to Stanley Civilian Internment Camp
Submitted by brian edgar on Sat, 2013-11-23 18:00Book / Document:Date(s) of events described:Tue, 2 Feb 1943What remains of the German Sixth Army surrrenders at Stalingrad. About 91,000 Axis troops are taken prisoner.
About six months of brutal fighting have cost the Russions 750,000 casualties - killed, captured or wounded - in the city itself; the number of civilians killed in the surrounding areas is unknown.
If the battle had been lost, even if the Germans had eventually been defeated, few internees would have lived long enough to see the end of the war. There's a long way to go, even on the Russian front, but today is one of the days that assures the survival of most of Stanley Camp.
