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The lead elements of the two Allied army groups met on 1 April 1945, east of the Ruhr, to create the encirclement of 317,000 German troops to their west. While the bulk of the U.S. forces advanced east towards the Elbe river, 18 U.S. divisions remained behind to destroy Army Group B. The reduction of the German pocket began on 1 April by the U.S.
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.
27 April — The Western Allies flatly reject any offer of surrender by Germany other than unconditional on all fronts. 29 April — Adolf Hitler marries his longtime mistress Eva Braun in a closed civil ceremony in the Berlin Führerbunker, on the same day that American forces liberate Dachau.
Rows of bodies of dead inmates fill the yard of Lager Nordhausen, a Gestapo concentration camp. This photo shows less than half of the bodies of the several hundred inmates who died of starvation or were shot by Gestapo men. Germany, April 12, 1945. Myers. (Army) NARA FILE #: 111-SC-203456 WAR & CONFLICT BOOK #: 1121: Headline
These three towns were major battles between the Jagst and Kocher Rivers over the period of 4–12 April 1945. [1] The Battle between the Jagst and Kocher Rivers was the northern section of the Battle of Heilbronn. "On April 9th ... Company F, Company E, and Company G was down to 63, 50, and 83 men, respectively.
On April 21, 1945, the local commander of the 102nd ordered between 200 and 300 men from the town of Gardelegen to give the murdered prisoners a proper burial. Over the next few days, the German civilians exhumed 586 bodies from the trenches and recovered 430 bodies from the barn, placing each in an individual grave.
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), was a guard at a nearby camp for Russian prisoners of war after World War I [9] [10] [page needed] Rudolf Sellner (1905−1990), actor, dramaturge, director, intendant Pope Benedict XVI (1927-2022), spent much of his early childhood and teenage years living in Traunstein and with his brother Georg attended the St ...