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The Western Allied invasion of Germany was coordinated by the Western Allies during the final months of hostilities in the European theatre of World War II.In preparation for the Allied invasion of Germany east of the Rhine, a series of offensive operations were designed to seize and capture its east and west banks: Operation Veritable and Operation Grenade in February 1945, and Operation ...
The Colmar Pocket (French: Poche de Colmar; German: Brückenkopf Elsass) was the area held in central Alsace, France, by the German Nineteenth Army from November 1944 to February 1945, against the U.S. 6th Army Group (6th AG) during World War II.
The Allied armies continued to push the Germans back through eastern France and in February and March 1945, back across the Rhine into Germany. A few pockets of German resistance remained in control of the main Atlantic ports until the end of the war on 8 May 1945.
The extreme shortage of petrol and diesel fuel. France had no indigenous oil production and all imports had stopped. Labour shortages, particularly in the countryside, due to the large number of French prisoners of war held in Germany, and the Service du travail obligatoire. Rationing tickets for the French population, July 1944.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt would join the Conference for one day on 2 February 1945; both would fly to Yalta on 3 February for the Yalta Conference with Stalin. 31: The Red Army crosses the Oder River into Germany and are now less than 50 miles from Berlin.: A second invasion on Luzon by Americans lands on the west coast.
7 May – General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms at Rheims, ending Germany's participation in the war. The document takes effect the next day. 8 May – World War II ends in Europe. 8–29 May – In Algeria, French troops kill an estimated 6,000 Algerian citizens in the Sétif massacre.
In December 1946, the French military government for Germany absorbed into its zone German refugees from Denmark, where 250,000 Germans had found a refuge from the Soviets by sea vessels between February and May 1945. [16] These clearly were war-related refugees from the eastern parts of Germany however, and not post-war expellees.
Lebanon declared war on Germany and Japan. [22] Civil administration of the Philippines was formally handed over to President Sergio Osmeña. [22] German submarines U-327 and U-1018 were both depth charged and sunk in the Western Approaches by British warships. Born: Carl Anderson, singer and actor, in Lynchburg, Virginia (d. 2004)