Table of Data Points
1945-01-30 | Raid at Cabanatuan | US Army Rangers, Alamo Scouts and Filipino guerrillas raid and liberate 512 POWs from the Japanese camp near Cabanatuan. | Read about 'Raid at Cabanatuan' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Raid at Cabanatuan' | ||
1945-01-28 | Burma Road Open | Supply trucks begin to reach China over the newly re-opened Burma road. | Read about 'Burma Road Open' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Burma Road Open' | ||
1945-01-27 | Auschwitz Liberated | Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Over one million men, women and children had been murdered at the camp since it's creation in 1940. | Read about 'Auschwitz Liberated' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Auschwitz Liberated' | ||
1945-01-24 | Gleiwitz Captured | The Soviet 1st Ukrainian front captures Gleiwitz. | Read about 'Gleiwitz Captured' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Gleiwitz Captured' | ||
1945-01-24 | Opole captured | The Soviet 1st Ukrainian front captures Opole. | Read about 'Opole captured' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Opole captured' | ||
1945-01-23 | 1945-05-08 | Operation Hannibal | The evacuation of troops and civilians from Courland, East Prussia, and the Polish Corridor. Hundreds of merchant vessels and Germany's largest remaining naval vessels would transport hundreds of thousands of evacuees and soldiers across the Baltic. | Read about 'Operation Hannibal' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Operation Hannibal' | |
1945-01-20 | Hungary Armistice | Hungary agrees to an armistice with the Allies. | Read about 'Hungary Armistice' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Hungary Armistice' | ||
1945-01-20 | 1945-03-31 | East Prussia Evacuated | German authorities begin the evacuation of over 1.8 million civillian ethnic Germans from East Prussia. | Read about 'East Prussia Evacuated' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'East Prussia Evacuated' | |
1945-01-19 | Lodz Ghetto | Soviet troops liberate the Lodz Ghetto (the second largest ghetto in occupied Poland). Of the 200,000 pre-war Jewish inhabitants, only 900 had survived Nazi occupation. | Read about 'Lodz Ghetto' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Lodz Ghetto' | ||
1945-01-17 | Auschwitz Abandonned | Nazi forces evacuate Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in. The SS command sent orders calling for the execution of all prisoners remaining in the camp, but in the chaos of the Nazi retreat the order was never carried out. | Read about 'Auschwitz Abandonned' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Auschwitz Abandonned' |
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