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The largest amphibious invasion of all time, with 175,000 troops, 195,700 Allied naval and merchant navy personnel in over 5,000 ships.

The Gustav line was assaulted four times by Allied troops. For the last of these the Allies gathered 20 divisions for a major assault along a twenty mile front and drove the German defenders from their positions but at a high cost.

Prisoners seized small arms, sprayed kerosene on all the buildings and set them ablaze. A number of guards were killed but many more prisoners perished. Of 1,500 prisoners, about 600 managed to escape the camp, but only 40 are known to have survived..

The Jewish resistance which rose to try and prevent the deportation of the remaining Jews in the Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka extermination camp. The poorly armed and supplied resistance was crushed by German troops.

Under the command of Amon Gth the Krakow Ghetto is liquidated. Those deemed unfit for work, some 2,000 Jews, were killed in the streets of the ghetto. Any remaining were sent to Auschwitz.