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The following events occurred in July 1943: ==July 1, 1943 (Thursday)== *The death sentence, for treason, of German-born American Max Stephan was commuted by U.S. President Roosevelt to life imprisonment, seven hours before Stephan was to be hanged. Stephan had been convicted of harboring a German prisoner of war who had escaped from a POW camp in Ontario.〔"Traitor Saved by President", ''Milwaukee Journal'', July 2, 1943, p1〕 *The United States Women's Army Corps (WAC) was converted to full status, changing its name from the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps, and U.S. Army Major Oveta Culp Hobby as the first Director.〔Jerry K. Sweeney, ''A Handbook of American Military History: From the Revolutionary War to the Present'' (University of Nebraska Press, May 1, 2006) p216〕 *The Nurse Training Act was passed by the United States Congress, creating the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps.〔Barbara Brooks Tomblin, ''G.I. Nightingales: The Army Nurse Corps in World War II'' (University Press of Kentucky, 2003) p190〕 *Adolf Eichmann was granted full authority by Martin Bormann to use the Gestapo in enforcement of "the permanent elimination of Jews from the territories of Greater Germany".〔"Bormann, Martin", in ''Encyclopedia of War Crimes and Genocide'', by Leslie Alan Horvitz and Christopher Catherwood (Infobase Publishing, 2009) p49〕 *''An Investigation of Global Policy with the Yamato Race as Nucleus'', a six-volume secret report compiled by the Population and Race Section of the Research Bureau of Japan's Ministry of Health and Welfare, was completed and submitted to the Prime Minister, setting the blueprint for imposing Japanese names, the Japanese language and the Shinto religion on all minorities within the Empire.〔Ben Kiernan, ''Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur'' (Yale University Press, 2009) p482〕 *Tokyo City was administratively merged with its prefecture to form the special wards of Tokyo. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「July 1943」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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