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Showing posts with label Germany. Show all posts
Saturday, 24 August 2013
On This Day
On This Day - 1941 - In response to domestic discontent, Adolf Hitler orders a stop to his policy of exterminating the mentally ill. Since the beginning of the war, more than 70,000 such people have died at the hands of the Nazis. The policy will be continued in a decentralized manner, with another 100,000 dying by May 1945. Thousands also will be killed in Nazi German-occupied areas.
Thursday, 22 August 2013
On This Day
On This Day - 1941 - Nazi troops reached the outskirts of Leningrad during World War II.
Tuesday, 20 August 2013
On This Day
On This Day - 1942 - German forces were getting ready to attack Stalingrad. The Russians, already devastated by the power of the Blitzkrieg during Operation Barbarossa, had to make a stand especially as the city was named after the Russian leader, Joseph Stalin.
Friday, 16 August 2013
On This Day
On This Day - 1942 - US Army Air Force planes see action for the first time in North Africa, bombing German military positions from their base in Egypt.
Wednesday, 14 August 2013
On This Day
On This Day - 1940 - The Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, has spent the last few days in a top-secret meetings with the American President, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Tuesday, 13 August 2013
On This Day
On This Day - 1940 - 13th The Luftwaffe launched "Adler Tag" or "Eagle Day", the start of intended mass attacks which would knock out the RAF.
Monday, 5 August 2013
On This Day
On This Day - 1944 - Polish insurgents liberated a German labour camp in Warsaw. 348 Jewish prisoners were freed.
Sunday, 4 August 2013
On This Day
On This Day - 1944 - Nazi police raided a house in Amsterdam and arrested 8 people. Anne Frank, a teenager at the time, was one of the people arrested. Her dairy would be published after her death. The last entry in the dairy was on this day.
Thursday, 1 August 2013
On This Day
On This Day - 1936, Adolf Hitler presided over the Olympic Games as they opened in Berlin.
Tuesday, 25 December 2012
On This Day
On This Day - 1942 - Heavy fighting continues all around the perimeter of the Stalingrad Kessel, while the decimated and starving troops of the German 6th Army receive their last rations of horse meat, the 12,000 horses in the pocket having now all been slaughtered.
On the same day - 1944 - Fighting continues in the "Battle of the Bulge", while in the southern portion of the German attack, surrounded US troops continue to hold out against repeated German attempts to take vital road junction at Bastogne.
On the same day - 1944 - Fighting continues in the "Battle of the Bulge", while in the southern portion of the German attack, surrounded US troops continue to hold out against repeated German attempts to take vital road junction at Bastogne.
Monday, 24 December 2012
On This Day
On This Day - 1943 - In the Ukrane, the Red Army launches an offensive in the Kiev-Shitomir area, capturing Berdichev.
General Dwight D. Eisenhauer is appointed supreme commander of the Allied forces preparing for the invasion of Europe.
On the same day - 1944 - The German U-Boat U-486 sinks the Allied troop carrier SS Leopldville with the loss of 763 men of the US 6th Infantry Division. All the news and information on this incident was suppressed by the orders of SHAEF headquarters.
General Dwight D. Eisenhauer is appointed supreme commander of the Allied forces preparing for the invasion of Europe.
On the same day - 1944 - The German U-Boat U-486 sinks the Allied troop carrier SS Leopldville with the loss of 763 men of the US 6th Infantry Division. All the news and information on this incident was suppressed by the orders of SHAEF headquarters.
Saturday, 22 December 2012
On This Day
On This Day - 1944 - The allies report that the Germans have penetrated up to 40 miles in the Ardennes. The American defenders of Bastogne receive the German surrender ultimatum which Brigadier General McAulife, answers with a single word, "Nuts" ! The U.S. 3rd Army begins an offensive to relieve Bastogne.
On the same day - 1941 - The Japanese begin their invasion of the Philippines by landing 43,000 troops of General Homma's 14th Army in Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, 150 miles north of Manila.
On the same day - 1941 - The Japanese begin their invasion of the Philippines by landing 43,000 troops of General Homma's 14th Army in Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, 150 miles north of Manila.
Friday, 21 December 2012
On This Day
On This Day - 1939 - Between 07h25 and 10h16, German submarine U-21 sank two neutral Swedish ships Mars and SS Carl Henckel with one torpedo each. The Geramn submarine did not pick up any survivors. Only 8 out of 36 floating in the water survived until when help arrived the next day.
On This same day, Russia celebrated Joseph Stalin's 60th official birthday. His actual birthday was 18 December 1878 but was changed to 21 December 1879 after he came to power in 1922.
On This same day, Russia celebrated Joseph Stalin's 60th official birthday. His actual birthday was 18 December 1878 but was changed to 21 December 1879 after he came to power in 1922.
Thursday, 20 December 2012
On This Day
On This Day - 1941 - The Flying Tigers, American pilots in China, enter combat against the Japanese over Kunming.
On the same day German forces of Army Group Centre retreating from Moscow reached a new defensive line, more than 100km to the west, where, following strict orders by Hitler, they are to stand and fight off any further Soviet advances.
On the same day German forces of Army Group Centre retreating from Moscow reached a new defensive line, more than 100km to the west, where, following strict orders by Hitler, they are to stand and fight off any further Soviet advances.
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
On This Day
On This Day - 1940 - Mussolini request German assistance for his hard-pressed troops in Cyrenaica in the form of a Panzer Division and various logistical support.
Tuesday, 18 December 2012
On This Day
On This Day - 1940 - Adolf Hitler signed a secret directive ordering preparations for a Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Operation "Barbarossa" was launched in June 1941.
Monday, 17 December 2012
On This Day
On This Day - 1944 - Germany counter attack in the Ardennes. The Germans mounted a series of counter-attacks on the Western front allowing them to re-cross the borders of Luxembourg and Belgium. On the second day of what now appears to be a full-scale counter offensive, the Germans attacked with tanks and aircraft along a 70-mile front guarded by American forces in the Ardennes region.
It became known as the "Battle of the Bulge"
It became known as the "Battle of the Bulge"
Sunday, 16 December 2012
On This Day
On This Day - 1942 - The Soviet army defeats the Italian troops on the River Don in the USSR.
Friday, 14 December 2012
On This Day
On This Day - 1944 - German occupiers forbid the use of electricity in parts of Holland.
Wednesday, 12 December 2012
On This Day
On This Day - 1941 - German troops do a house to house search in Paris, France looking for Jews hiding from being captured.
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