Table of Data Points

Tag : Europe

1945-01-20Hungary Armistice

Hungary agrees to an armistice with the Allies.

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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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1945-01-19Lodz 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.

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1945-01-17Auschwitz 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.

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1945-01-17Warsaw Liberated

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

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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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1945-01-11La Roche-en-Ardenne

After heavy allied bombing and many civillian casualties, British forces recapture La Roche en Ardenne.

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1945-01-10Uckermark Extermination

Previously a forced labour camp for juveniles, the camp infrastructure was used as an extermination camp for "sick, no longer efficient, and over 52 years old women".

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1945-01-02Nuremburg Bombed

The medieval city centre was systematically bombed by the Royal Air Force and the U.S. Army Air Forces and about ninety percent of it was destroyed in only one hour, with 1,800 residents killed and roughly 100,000 displaced.

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1945-01-01Chenogne Massacre

Several dozen German prisoners of war were killed by American forces near the village of Chenogne in retaliation for the Malmedy massacre.

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