U.S. Eighth Air Force bombers attack Germany for the first time

Auschwitz liberated

The German siege of Leningrad ends after 872 days

Tom Buergenthal arrives in Sachsenhausen.

Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany

Field Marshall Friedrich Paulus surrenders at Stalingrad, marking the turn of the tide in WWII

Japanese troops begin their withdrawal from Guadalcanal.

Vidkun Quisling, a collaborator with the German occupiers of Norway, is appointed Minister-President

German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad

Berlin hit in broad daylight by U.S. bombers in heaviest raid ever.

The Yalta Conference begins.

William L. Shirer reviews From Day to Day in the pages of the New York Herald Tribune

Dresden, Germany firebombed; thousands killed.

1952 Winter Olympics begin; Eigil Nansen lights Olympic Torch.

Singapore surrenders to the Japanese.  32,000 Indian, 16,00o British, and 14,000 Australian troops taken prisoner.  More than half will die in captivity.

Odd Nansen meets Tommy Buergenthal

Altmark Affair in Jøssingfjord, Norway

U.S. Marines land on Iwo Jima

Count Folke Bernadotte meets with Himmler to negotiate the release of Scandinavian prisoners

The ferry SF Hydro is sunk by Norwegian resistance fighters on Lake Tinnsjø, effectively ending Germany's development of an atomic bomb.

Operation Gunnerside, the attack on the heavy water facility in Norway, begins.