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Anzio Engagement
The Anzio engagement is limited to minor activity for the time being, with the Allies dug in and the Germans trying to dislodge the invaders by limited means. -
Foreign Nationals
Nazi Germany announces that it has detained and enslaved some five million foreign nationals to fulfill the Reich's war-related labor needs. -
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March 1944
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Italian Casualties
More than 400 Italian civilians die on a cargo train when it stalls in a tunnel and asphyxiates them with fumes. The freight cars had become the only means of transportation in a country where all available resources are being devoted to the war effort. -
Spoils of War
The Allies reveal that the U.S., Britain, and Soviet Union will share equally in the war spoils of the Italian navy. -
Protests
As many as six million workers in northern Italy strike in protest of deportations of Italians to German slave labor camps. -
Bombing of Berlin
Berlin is bombed by a U.S. force of nearly 700 bombers, but the Americans suffer the loss of 69 planes, a one-day record. -
Auschwitz
The gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau claim more than 3,800 Jewish deportees from the Theresienstadt Ghetto. -
Pierre Pucheu
In the first of what will be many trials of French "collaborators" (French men and women who aided and abetted the Nazis), Vichy interior minister Pierre Pucheu receives a guilty verdict and a death sentence. -
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia's government-in-exile sends a message to Czech citizens back home to revolt against the occupying Nazis. -
Travel Suspended
Britain suspends travel between England and Ireland two days after Ireland denies an Allied request to close down Axis consular offices that effectively serve as espionage operations for Axis nations. -
Hungarian Invasion
Responding to Hungary's recent flirtation with the Allies, German troops stage along the border, forewarning an invasion. -
Oswald John Job
Oswald John Job, at age 59, becomes the oldest person to be executed under the terms of Britain's 1940 Treachery Act. Job had passed secrets to the Nazis in letters using invisible ink. -
Bombing of Frankfurt
The RAF drops 3,000 tons of bombs on Frankfurt, Nazi Germany. A separate raid four days later will claim more than 1,000 civilian lives -
Occupation of Hungary
Nazi Germany occupies Hungary two days after Hitler gave his troops the order to march. -
Attack on Nuremburg
795 RAF bombers attack Nuremburg with 95 aircraft lost to action. This mission marks the biggest RAF loss to date.
