Table of Data Points
1945-01-20 | Hungary Armistice | Hungary agrees to an armistice with the Allies. | Read about 'Hungary Armistice' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Hungary Armistice' | ||
1945-01-20 | 1945-03-31 | East Prussia Evacuated | German authorities begin the evacuation of over 1.8 million civillian ethnic Germans from East Prussia. | Read about 'East Prussia Evacuated' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'East Prussia Evacuated' | |
1945-01-19 | Lodz 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. | Read about 'Lodz Ghetto' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Lodz Ghetto' | ||
1945-01-17 | Auschwitz 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. | Read about 'Auschwitz Abandonned' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Auschwitz Abandonned' | ||
1945-01-17 | Warsaw Liberated | Soviet troops entered the ruins of the city of Warsaw, and liberated Warsaw's suburbs from German occupation. | Read about 'Warsaw Liberated' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Warsaw Liberated' | ||
1945-01-16 | Hitler 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. | Read about 'Hitler enters Furerbunker' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Hitler enters Furerbunker' | ||
1945-01-11 | La Roche-en-Ardenne | After heavy allied bombing and many civillian casualties, British forces recapture La Roche en Ardenne. | Read about 'La Roche-en-Ardenne' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'La Roche-en-Ardenne' | ||
1945-01-10 | Uckermark 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". | Read about 'Uckermark Extermination' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Uckermark Extermination' | ||
1945-01-02 | Nuremburg 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. | Read about 'Nuremburg Bombed' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Nuremburg Bombed' | ||
1945-01-01 | Chenogne Massacre | Several dozen German prisoners of war were killed by American forces near the village of Chenogne in retaliation for the Malmedy massacre. | Read about 'Chenogne Massacre' on WikiPedia | Discuss 'Chenogne Massacre' |
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