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Timeline of Events

1941

11.12.1941

World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 ° C and the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.

1942

1.13.1942

World War II: First use of aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.

3.28.1942

World War II: In occupied France, British naval forces raid the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire.

7.18.1942

World War II: the Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jet engines for the first time.

8.8.1942

World War II: in Washington, DC, six German would-be saboteurs (Operation Pastorius) are executed.

8.22.1942

World War II: Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy.

8.26.1942

Holocaust in Chortkiav, western Ukraine: At 2.30 am the German Schutzpolizei starts driving Jews out of their houses, divides them into groups of 120, packs them in freight cars and deports 2000 to Belzec death camp. 500 of the sick and children are murdered on the spot.

10.3.1942

Spaceflight: The first successful launch of a V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. It is the first man-made object to reach space.

11.3.1942

World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein ends – German forces under Erwin Rommel are forced to retreat during the night.

1943

2.22.1943

World War II: Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.

3.22.1943

World War II: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces.

4.19.1943

World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

4.25.1943

The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.

5.17.1943

World War II: the Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams.

8.29.1943

German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.

9.12.1943

World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.

10.13.1943

World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.

11.16.1943

World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway.

12.5.1943

World War II: U.S. Army Air Force begins attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow .

1944

2.7.1944

World War II: In Anzio, Italy, German forces launch a counteroffensive during the Allied Operation Shingle.

2.20.1944

World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.

6.13.1944

World War II: Germany launches a counter attack on Carentan.

6.13.1944

World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.

8.5.1944

Holocaust: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.

9.12.1944

World War II: The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany and the Chetniks continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities. Near Trier, American troops enter Germany for the first time.

10.5.1944

Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France.

11.12.1944

World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers in one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship ''Tirpitz'', with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway.

11.16.1944

Dueren, Germany is destroyed by Allied bombers.

1945

2.13.1945

World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.

2.14.1945

World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.

2.25.1945

World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.

4.4.1945

World War II: American troops liberate Ohrdruf forced labor camp in Germany.

4.6.1945

World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from the German and Croatian Nazis by the Yugoslav Partisans.

4.13.1945

German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen Germany.

4.17.1945

Brazilian forces liberate the town of Montese, Italy, from German Nazi forces.

4.18.1945

Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany.

4.20.1945

World War II: US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.

4.29.1945

The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.

5.7.1945

World War II: General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in the war. The document takes effect the next day.

5.8.1945

World War II: V-E Day, combat ends in Europe. German forces agree in Rheims, France, to an unconditional surrender.

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