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Audisio and Lampredi left Milan for Dongo early on the morning of 28 April 1945 to carry out the orders Audisio had been given by Longo. [36] [37] On arrival in Dongo, they met Bellini delle Stelle, who was the local partisan commander, to arrange for Mussolini to be handed over to them.
The Battle of Okinawa began. 50,000 American troops landed on Okinawa against little initial resistance and established a 13-kilometre (8.1 mi) beachhead. [1]The Japanese ocean liner-turned-hospital ship Awa Maru was passing through the Taiwan Strait when the American submarine USS Queenfish (SS-393) mistook it for a destroyer, torpedoed and sank it.
In the final days of the Second World War, on the morning of 28 April 1945, Rupprecht Gerngroß, the general of the Bavarian rebels, ordered the occupation of the radio transmitters in Schwabing-Freimann and Erding. After the successful occupation, he broadcast messages in multiple languages, encouraging soldiers to resist the Nazi regime.
Raoul Minot (September 28, 1893, Montluçon, France – April 28, 1945, Cham, Germany) was a French amateur photographer who was imprisoned in France and deported to concentration camps in Germany during the Second World War for his clandestine photography in Nazi-occupied Paris. He survived internment, but died in Germany soon after his ...
In April 1945 the prisoners of Dachau concentration camp were supposed to be sent on a death march south with their SS guards to be used as labourers in the Alpenfestung. [2] The General of Freiheitsaktion Bayern , Rupprecht Gerngroß triggered the uprising while trying to overthrow the Nazis in Munich .
April 28 is the 118th day of the year (119th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 247 days remain until the end of the year. ... 1945 – The Holocaust: ...
1945 was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the ... April 28. Executed: Hermann Fegelein, German SS general (b. 1906)
Clara "Claretta" Petacci (Italian: [klaˈretta peˈtattʃi]; 28 February 1912 – 28 April 1945) was a mistress of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. She was killed by Italian partisans during Mussolini's summary execution.