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The Soviet 1st Ukrainian front captures Gleiwitz.

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.

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.

Soviet troops entered the ruins of the city of Warsaw, and liberated Warsaw's suburbs from German occupation.

The Allies had taken control of all strategically and economically important locations of Luzon by March, although pockets of Japanese resistance held out in the mountains until the unconditional surrender of Japan.