Timeline Tuesday 13 April 1943

Events on Tuesday 13 April 1943 3

• 1888 – 1943 Oskar Schlemmer (1888-1943) Died 13 April 1943, aged 54 Oskar Schlemmer was a German painter, sculptor and designer who taught at the Bauhaus. He created the Triadic Ballet. The Nazis condemned his art as degenerate.
• 1943 Germany announces discovery of Katyn graves Mass graves of Polish officers found near Smolensk Germany announced that it had found mass graves of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk. The prisoners had been shot by the Soviet NKVD in 1940. When the Polish government-in-exile called for a Red Cross inquiry, Moscow broke off relations with it.
• 1943 Jefferson Memorial dedicated Roosevelt dedicates the memorial in Washington President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. The ceremony was held on the 200th anniversary of Jefferson's birth. Because of wartime metal shortages, the bronze statue was only installed in 1947.