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The Luftwaffe executed Operation Bodenplatte, an attempt to cripple Allied air forces in the Low Countries.The operation was a tactical German success but failed in its aim of achieving air superiority.
Operation Bodenplatte ([ˈboːdn̩ˌplatə]; "Baseplate"), launched on 1 January 1945, was an attempt by the Luftwaffe to cripple Allied air forces in the Low Countries during the Second World War. The goal of Bodenplatte was to gain air superiority during the stagnant stage of the Battle of the Bulge so that the German Army and Waffen-SS ...
January — American troops cross the Siegfried Line into Belgium. 6 January — More than 80,000 Jews held captive by the Nazis are freed in Budapest, Hungary, by Russian soldiers. 12 January — World War II: The Soviet Union begins the Vistula-Oder Offensive in Eastern Europe against the Nazis; 14 January — Eastern Germany is invaded by ...
German-occupied Europe (or Nazi-occupied Europe) refers to the sovereign countries of Europe which were wholly or partly militarily occupied and civil-occupied, including puppet governments, by the military forces and the government of Nazi Germany at various times between 1939 and 1945, during World War II, administered by the Nazi regime under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.
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The Vistula–Oder offensive (Russian: Висло-Одерская операция, romanized: Vislo–Oderskaya operatsiya) was a Red Army operation on the Eastern Front in the European theatre of World War II in January 1945. The army made a major advance into German-held territory, capturing Kraków, Warsaw and Poznań.
Map of the Soviet Advance into East Prussia & Siege of Königsberg January 13 - May 9, 1945, archived from the original on 10 April 2006; Glantz, David M., The Soviet-German War 1941–45]: Myths and Realities: A Survey Essay (PDF), pp. 84– 87, archived from the original (PDF) on 9 July 2011; Popov, Grigory (2020).
Western Front; Part of the European theatre of World War II: Clockwise from top left: Rotterdam after the Blitz, German Heinkel He 111 planes during the Battle of Britain, Allied paratroopers during Operation Market Garden, American troops running through Wernberg, Germany, Siege of Bastogne, American troops landing at Omaha Beach during Operation Overlord