Table of Data Points

Tag : Domestic

1945-01-201945-03-31East Prussia Evacuated

German authorities begin the evacuation of over 1.8 million civillian ethnic Germans from East Prussia.

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1945-01-16Hitler enters Furerbunker

Hitler moved into the Fhrerbunker. He was joined by his senior staff, Martin Bormann, and later, Eva Braun and Joseph Goebbels with Magda and their six children who took residence in the upper Vorbunker.

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1944-11-19Sixth War Loan Drive

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion USD in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.

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1944-11-06Hanford Plutonium

Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.

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1944-10-14Rommel commits suicide

Hitler understood the major scandal if it came out that Rommel had been involved in the Operation Valkyrie plot. He therefore decided that Rommel should have the choice of either committing suicide or formal expulsion and trial.

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1944-08-291944-10-28Slovak National Uprising

An attempt to overthrow the collaborationist Slovak State of Jozef Tiso. Although the rebel forces were defeated by Nazi Germany, guerrilla warfare continued until the Soviet Army liberated Slovakia in 1945.

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1944-08-05Cowra Breakout

In one of the largest prison escapes of the war 545 Japanese prisoners storm the wire of their prison camp. Four Australian soldiers and 231 Japanese soldiers died and 108 prisoners were wounded in the escape and subsequent re-capture.

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1944-07-21Stauffenberg Executed

In an ultimately futile attempt to save his own life, Generaloberst Friedrich Fromm, Commander-in-Chief of the Replacement Army holds an impromptu court marshal of his co-conspirators, condemning the ringleaders to death.

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1944-07-20Valkyrie

Hitler survies an attempted assassination when an explosive device is detonated at his East Prussia headquarters (Wolfsschanze). The failure of the assassination and planned coup led to the arrest of over 7000 people by the Gestapo. 4,980 are executed.

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1944-07-18Tojo Resigns

After many military setbacks Hideki Tojo is forced to resign as prime minister of Japan.

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