Table of Data Points

Tag : Europe

1945-04-17Montese Liberated

Brazilian troops liberate the town of Montese after a three day battle with defending German forces.

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1945-04-16Colditz Liberated

US Troops liberate the town of Colditz and the notorious prisoner of war camp Oflag IV-C.

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1945-04-16Goya Sunk

In one of the largest maritime disasters in history, the German transport ship Goya was sunk by a Soviet submarine. When the ship went down she was carrying over 7000 civilians and wounded Wehrmacht troops. 183 survived.

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1945-04-161945-05-02Battle of Berlin

The last remaining depleted, badly equipped, and disorganised Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS divisions, as well as many Volkssturm and Hitler Youth members, fight in the suburbs of Berlin against Soviet troops.

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1945-04-161945-04-19Seelow Heights

Close to one million Soviet soldiers of the 1st Belorussian Front commanded by Marshal Georgi Zhukov, attacked the position known as "Gates of Berlin". They were opposed by about 110,000 German soldiers of the Ninth Army.

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1945-04-11Buchenwald Liberated

US troops liberate Buchenwald concentration camp. One of the first and largest concentration camp on German soil

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1945-04-091945-04-10Scheer Sunk

During a RAF air raid on the Kiel dockyards involving over 300 aircraft, the pocket Battleship Admiral Scheer was struck by bombs and capsized at her berth.

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1945-04-081945-04-11Celler Hasenjagd

A train carrying internees of the concentration camp Salzgitter Drutte is hit by an air raid killing hundreds. Some escape into the woods, but are pursued and massacred by Gestapo, SS guard, Nazi Party officials and local residents.

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1945-04-07Visoko Liberated

The 7th, 9th and 17th Krajina brigades from the Tenth division of Yugoslav Partisan forces liberate the city of Visoko.

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1945-04-061945-04-09Battle of Konigsberg

After a three day full scale assault by Soviet troops from the the 3rd Belorussian Front, the defending German garrison at Konigsberg surrenders. This was the last major operation in the east Prussian offensive.

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