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 | 1945-04-16 | Colditz Liberated | US Troops liberate the town of Colditz and the notorious prisoner of war camp Oflag IV-C. | Read about 'Colditz Liberated' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Colditz Liberated' | |
| 1945-04-16 | Goya Sunk | In one of the largest maritime disasters in history, the German transport ship Goya was sunk by a Soviet submarine. When the ship went down she was carrying over 7000 civilians and wounded Wehrmacht troops. 183 survived. | Read about 'Goya Sunk' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Goya Sunk' | |
| 1945-04-16 | 1945-05-02 | Battle of Berlin | The last remaining depleted, badly equipped, and disorganised Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS divisions, as well as many Volkssturm and Hitler Youth members, fight in the suburbs of Berlin against Soviet troops. | Read about 'Battle of Berlin' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Battle of Berlin' |
| 1945-04-16 | 1945-04-19 | Seelow Heights | Close to one million Soviet soldiers of the 1st Belorussian Front commanded by Marshal Georgi Zhukov, attacked the position known as "Gates of Berlin". They were opposed by about 110,000 German soldiers of the Ninth Army. | Read about 'Seelow Heights' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Seelow Heights' |
| 1945-04-12 | Roosevelt dies in office | President Roosevelt dies in office from a massive cerebral hemorrhage. | Read about 'Roosevelt dies in office' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Roosevelt dies in office' | |
| 1945-04-11 | Buchenwald Liberated | US troops liberate Buchenwald concentration camp. One of the first and largest concentration camp on German soil | Read about 'Buchenwald Liberated' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Buchenwald Liberated' | |
| 1945-04-09 | 1945-04-10 | Scheer Sunk | During a RAF air raid on the Kiel dockyards involving over 300 aircraft, the pocket Battleship Admiral Scheer was struck by bombs and capsized at her berth. | Read about 'Scheer Sunk' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Scheer Sunk' |
| 1945-04-08 | 1945-04-11 | Celler Hasenjagd | A train carrying internees of the concentration camp Salzgitter Drutte is hit by an air raid killing hundreds. Some escape into the woods, but are pursued and massacred by Gestapo, SS guard, Nazi Party officials and local residents. | Read about 'Celler Hasenjagd' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Celler Hasenjagd' |
| 1945-04-07 | Yamato Sunk | Having been hit by multiple bombs and torpedoes, the Japanese Battleship Yamato rolls and then explodes. An estimated 3,055 of her 3,332 crew were lost, including Vice-Admiral Seiichi Ito. | Read about 'Yamato Sunk' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Yamato Sunk' | |
| 1945-04-07 | Visoko Liberated | The 7th, 9th and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces liberate the city of Visoko. | Read about 'Visoko Liberated' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Visoko Liberated' |
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