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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 February 2025. Aerial bombing attacks in 1945 You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (June 2023) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for ...
Action of 9 February 1945: German submarine U-864 was sunk west of Bergen, Norway by the British submarine Venturer. To date this remains the only time in history one submarine has intentionally sunk another submarine while both were fully submerged. Adolf Hitler viewed a post-war model of his hometown of Linz, Austria.
12 February — World War II: The British/Canadian front captures Cleve, in western Germany. 13 February — World War II: Soviet forces capture Budapest from the Nazis. 13 February — World War II: Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces begin bombing of Dresden, Germany. Over the next three days, more than 3,900 tons of high ...
February 1945 events in the United Kingdom (2 P) Pages in category "February 1945 in Europe" ... Turkish declaration of war on Germany and Japan; V. Operation Veritable;
On 30 May 1944, weather inspector Gerhard Wallik and Obergefreiter Werner Blankenburg hunted and killed a polar bear. Blankenburg, who was also the station's cook, prepared a serving of steak tartare from the animal, which was consumed by all but one member of the station's crew. As Blankenburg had also been the one who had consumed the ...
The Committee on Dismemberment of Germany Allied discussions on the dismemberment of Germany into separate states, 29 March 1945. East Berlin, Past and Present Germany Under Reconstruction is a digital collection that provides a varied selection of publications in both English and German from the period immediately following World War II.
A total of nine attacks were carried out by the Royal Air Force (RAF) and United States Army Air Forces (AAF) in 1944 and 1945 as part of the Allied campaign of strategic bombing of Germany. However, unlike nearby Nuremberg, the city itself escaped major damage. Today, the historical city centre is a UNESCO Heritage Site.
After the Vistula–Oder offensive of January–February 1945, the Red Army had temporarily halted on a line 60 km (37 mi) east of Berlin. On 9 March, Germany established its defence plan for the city with Operation Clausewitz.