Events
Calendar of Events
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5 events,Gerda Buergenthal, Tom Buergenthal's mother, is liberated at Malchow, a subcamp of Ravensbruck Odd Nansen evacuated from Neuengamme on White Buses to Denmark, then Sweden. |
2 events,Last gassing of the Holocaust occurs at Mauthausen |
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1 event,Berlin surrenders to Marshal Zhukov; 134,000 German soldiers taken prisoner |
3 events,The S.S. Cap Arcona sunk by British warplanes; only 350 of 5,000 concentration camp inmates hidden aboard survive |
4 events,The Battle of Coral Sea begins. The first naval battle fought entirely by planes from opposing carriers. British forces arrive at Neuengamme Concentration Camp--to find it empty. |
2 events,Mauthausen Concentration Camp liberated by 11th Armored Division, Third United States Army |
1 event,General Wainwright surrenders last U.S. forces in the Phillippines |
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2 events,V-E Day. Allied military mission arrives in Norway to coordinate German capitulation. |
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6 events,Gunnar Sonsteby, Norway's most highly decorated resistance fighter, dies, age 94 Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain German forces invade the France and the Benelux Countries with 156 divisions |
2 events,Adolf Eichmann is captured in Buenos Aires, Argentina Thomas Buergenthal born in Ĺubochňa, Czechoslovakia |
4 events,Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Washington, DC, at the Trident Conference, to discuss Allied strategy |
3 events,Winston Churchill, in his first address to the House of Commons as Prime Minister, tells his audience "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." Odd Nansen’s father Fridtjof Nansen dies at Polhøgda (age 68) |
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1 event,The deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz commences |
2 events,Vidkun Quisling founds Nasjonal Samling (NS) Party in Norway |
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2 events,Monte Cassino, Italy finally captured, after six-month struggle |
2 events,President Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill fix May 1, 1944, as the date for the cross-channel invasion |
3 events,Germany's Admiral Donitz orders U-Boats to withdraw from North Atlantic convoy routes after heavy losses. Marks the turn of the tide in the Battle of the Atlantic |
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3 events,Reinhard Heydrich assassinated by Czech patriots (dies on June 4, 1942). Brutal reprisals follow. |
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2 events,The first 1,000 bomber Allied raid is unleased. Target: Cologne, Germany |
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