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WW2 Timeline 1945

By Drubnation

  • Liberation Auschwitz

    • The Soviets liberated Auschwitz, the largest killing center and concentration camp, in January 27, 1945.
    • Soviet soldiers found only several thousand prisoners alive when they entered the camp. They discovered, hundreds of thousands of men's suits, more than 800,000 women's outfits, and more than 14,000 pounds of human hair.
    • Over 1,000,000 prisoners Sent away were sent on a death march by Germans
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    Yalta Conference

    The Yalta Conference was held in 1945 from February 4 to February 11. This meeting was right after the end of world war 2 and the people there were Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. They met to discuss the Europe's postwar reorganization. The conference was held at the Livadia Palace near Yalta in Crimea. The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of nations who were involved in the war

  • Liberating Buchenwald

    • US forces liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany, on April 11, 1945, a few days after the Nazis began evacuating the camp
      • On the day of liberation, an underground prisoner resistance organization seized control of Buchenwald to prevent deaths by the retreating camp guards.
      • American forces liberated more than 20,000 prisoners at Buchenwald.

  • Death of Benito Mussolini

    Benito Mussolini died April 28, 1945. He was executed by anti-fascist partisans in a small village called Giulino di Mezzegra located in northern Italy. Mussolini was shot and killed by one of the anti-fascists. However, since the end of the war it has been unclear as who exactly shot Mussolini. In 1945, the allies were breaking through German defenses in Northern Italy and with a general uprising of the partisans taking hold in the cities, Mussolini's position became untenable.

  • Death of Adolf Hitler

    Adolf Hitler: April 30 1945 Adolf Hitler killed himself by taking a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in his underground bunker located in Berlin, Germany. Hitlers wife Eva Braun, who he married 2 days earlier before his death, committed suicide with him by taking a cyanide capsule. Warned by German officers that the Russians were only a day or so from overtaking the chancellery, the dictator decided to commit suicide. Before committing suicide Hitler tested out the cyanide capsule on hi

  • Berlin Declaration

    The Berlin Declaration was signed on June 5th 1945 in Berlin-Wendenschloss and this was the unconditional surrender of Germany. The Allies had supreme authority over the territory of the German Reich and basic administrative issues were addressed. The German Reich would continue its existence as a whole, which included its eastern territories as of December 31, 1937. The Allied powers also divided Germany into four different Allied-occupied zones. Each zone belonged to an Allied power.

  • Treaty to End War with Germany

    The Paris Peace Conference was held on July 29th 1946. Representatives of United States, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, and France, plus several other smaller Allied powers, met at the Palais du Luxembourg in Paris, France and the meeting ended in Oct 1946 to negotiate peace with defeated powers. The Allied powers allowed Axis countries such as Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Finland to remain sovereign states and were allowed to join the United Nations.

  • Treaty To End The War With Germany Pt 2

    Italy’s colonies in Africa were taken away and the borders of the Axis nations were adjusted. The Allied powers demanded for a large sum of reparations from the Axis powers. The Soviet Union received a significant portion of reparations.