• The "Comedy Francaise" puts on an anniversary performance of  'L'autre Danger'
• The Exhibition for Handicrafts is opened in Paris
• Bulls are inspected in Provence for the bullfighting arena
• Dog racing in Holland
• An exhibition about French colonial contributions to France is opened in Paris
• Fighting south of Lake Ilmen
• The battle for Stalingrad continues

• Admiral Darlan makes an inspection trip of French West Africa
• Admiral Darlan visits the "Jean Bart" battleship in Casablanca
• Parisian children give away their Christmas presents to needy children
• New hairstyles without using electricity for curlers
• A lottery drawing for holders of savings coupons
• The anniversary of the Black Shirt march on Rome
• Sixth anniversary of Franco receiving the title "Caudillo"
• Professor Thorak completes his latest work, "Mother and Child"
• A rail line is laid north of Lake Ilmen to bring in supplies
• Mountain troops dig in at Touapse, in the Caucasus
• On board an Italian submarine in the Atlantic, the "Barbarigo"
• A German squadron leaves its Norwegian base to intercept American convoys heading to Murmansk
• Bombardment of Fort El-Tag in Libya

• The Damnation of Faust is performed for the benefit of war invalids
• The last motorcycle race of the year is held in Bucharest
• Eight trains of released POWs arrives in Lyon
• The avenue on the Bay of Angels in Nice is being widened
• Wooden shoes are made for schoolchildren
• Land is being reclaimed in Denmark to use as new farmland
• Roadbuilding in Galicia, Ukraine
• General Franco opens a school for Falangist women
• Cotton is exported from harbors in the Crimea
• The draft of young men for the army in rural Hungary is celebrated
• Increased production of dried vegetables
• A new kind of bread is developed to replace the disappeared white bread
• Countermeasure training in the Norwegian fjords
• The Italians counterattack near Stalingrad
• The Anglo-Americans invade North Africa

• A Christmas message from Marshal Petain
• Extracting energy from cow dung
• The first "community restaurant" opens in Paris for low income families
• A new camouflage suit for the soldiers outside of Leningrad

• 4,000,000 Francs have been collected for the children of POWs held in Germany
• On New Year's Day, the diplomatic corps is received in Vichy by President Laval and Marshal Petain
• A 14-day campaign against tuberculoses begins
• Stamps with surcharges are issued for the fight against tuberculosis
• New Parisian hat fashions
• Increase in the output of electricity at the plant at La Plain St. Denis
• 100 soldiers and nine officers taken prisoner in North Africa are returned to France
• A large bread factory is opened by the Germans in Kyiv
• Admiral Horthy cuts the ribbon for a new rail line in Hungary
• President Carmona's 73rd birthday is celebrated in Lisbon
• Spanish students hike to Escorial to pay homage to the founder of the Falange movement
• The Finnish Red Cross receives rolling hospitals from Sweden
• Tunisian farmers work hard to prevent famine
• Serious flooding in the Caucasus

• In Paris, a "Night of Film" is being given for charity
• Former POW artists show off their work at the Galeria Museum
• A large census is held in Marseille
• 1% of mined coal will go to needy families
• Dr. Goebbels gives his "Total War" speech at the Sportpalast in Berlin
• Armament factories work day and night for German victory
• Pullback in the southern sector of the Eastern Front
• A supply ship leaves an Italian harbor for Tunisia
• Traffic between the two zones of France is made unrestricted

• A mass rally of POWs is held in Paris
• Review of police and local reserve units in Clemont-Ferrand
• Anglo-American bombers raid Rouen
• Memorial Day in Berlin
• Admiral Doenitz is received by Admiral Riccardi in Italy
• U-Boat commander Schewe arrives in an Italian port with his crew
• The fourth anniversary of Slovakia's independence is celebrated
• Elections to the Folketing in Copenhagen
• Hitler Youth swear allegiance to the Fuhrer in Breslau

• Rennes is bombed by the Americans
• Rouen is bombed
• Lorient is destroyed by bombing
• Amiens is hit by an air raid
• X-ray trains travel throughout France to treat tuberculosis patients
• Another contingent of French volunteers leaves for the Eastern Front
• Spanish naval cadets sail to Argentina
• Religious procession in Zagreb
• The largest diesel motor in the world in Denmark
• A Dutch SS man is the first foreigner to be awarded the Iron Cross
• The Soviets attempt an amphibious assault at Novorossisk
• Rommel's second anniversary in North Africa

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