Table of Data Points

Tag : Europe

1945-05-02Wobbelin Liberated

Troops from the 82nd airborne division liberate Wobbelin Concentration Camp. They discover the bodies of over 1000 inmates.

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1945-05-02SS abandon Neuengamme

The last SS troops leave the Neuengamme concentration camp. From 1938 to 1945 over half of the 106,000 prisoners who had been interned there had died.

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1945-04-30Hitler kills himself

With Soviet troops advancing through Berlin, Adolf hitler and his wife Eva Braun commit suicide in the Fuehrerbunker. Their bodies are burned in a bomb crater by SS Sturmbannuhrer Otto Gunsche and other Fhrerbunker aides.

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1945-04-301945-05-02Reichstag falls

German defenders, who have entrenched themselves in the burnt out rubble of the Reichstag, fight room to room to prevent the fall of the government building. It takes two days for Soviet troops to clear the building entirely.

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1945-04-29Mussolini's End

Having been shot the previous day, the mutilated bodies of Mussonlini, his mistress and several other Fascist officials are taken to the Piazzale Loreto in Milan and hung upside down on meat hooks.

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1945-04-29Dachau Liberated

Troops from the 42nd and 45th Infantry Division of the U.S. Seventh Army liberate Dachau concentration camp. They discover approximately 32,000 prisoners, crammed 1,600 to each of 20 barracks, which had been designed to house 250 people each.

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1945-04-291945-05-07Operation Mana

Royal and U.S. Air Force planes drop over 11,000 tons of food to un-liberated areas of the Netherlands to relieve starvation of civilians suffering from the Dutch Famine.

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1945-04-29Fornovo di Taro Liberated

The commune at Fornovo di Tar is liberated by Brazilian troops.

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1945-04-27Mussolini Captured

Benito Mussolini, his mistress and several other high ranking officials from the Fascist regime are captured by a group of Italian partisans lead by Urbano Lazzaro.

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1945-04-27Germany out of Finland

The last German troops withdraw from Finland ending the Lapland War.

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