Timeline - 1945
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17 January 1945Soviet troops capture Warsaw.
26 January 1945Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz.
04 February 1945Yalta Conference.
07 March 1945Allies take Cologne and establish a bridge across the Rhine at Remagen.
30 March 1945Soviet troops capture Danzig.
01 April 1945U.S. troops encircle Germans in the Ruhr.
12 April 1945President Roosevelt dies.
12 April 1945Allies liberate Buchenwald and Belsen concentration camps
16 April 1945Americans enter Nuremberg.
18 April 1945German forces in the Ruhr surrender.
21 April 1945Soviets reach Berlin.
28 April 1945Mussolini is captured and hanged by Italian partisans.
28 April 1945Allies take Venice.
29 April 1945U.S. Army liberates Dachau concentration camp.
30 April 1945Adolf Hitler commits suicide.
02 May 1945German troops in Italy surrender.
07 May 1945Unconditional surrender of all German forces to Allies.
08 May 1945V-E (Victory in Europe) Day.
09 May 1945Hermann Göring is captured by american forces.
23 May 1945Himmler commits suicide.




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