Let's start this new thread 65 years after the war started... 1st September, 1941: Yellow Star ordinance comes into effect.
1940 - Germany begins regular bombing of London during World War II - commonly known as 'The Blitz'. 1943 - Italy surrenders to the Allies during World War II.
1941 - Nazi Germany's siege of Leningrad begins with the encirclement of the Soviet city on September 8, 1941. It lasted slightly less than 900 days. As food and fuel ran out, some citizens were forced to subsist on bread made with sawdust while others worked through the winter in makeshift military factories without heat. Although many perished from starvation, bombings, and the bitter cold, the citizens? determined resistance held the German troops at bay and helped turn the tide of World War II. In January 1944, a Soviet offensive drove the Germans from the city's outskirts and the siege was lifted. An estimated 650,000 residents of Leningrad had perished. The Soviet government awarded the Order of Lenin to the people of Leningrad in 1945, paying tribute to their endurance during the grueling siege. 1943 - World War II: American General Dwight Eisenhower announces the unconditional surrender of Italy. 1944 - World War II: the first German V2 flying bombs land in Britain - exploding at Chiswick in London killing 3 people. 1945 - World War II: Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo attempts to take his own life rather than face a war crimes tribunal.
1942 - Incendiary bombs are dropped on Oregon in one of the few bombing raids made by Japan on the United States of America. 1943 - Allied troops, commanded by US Lieutenant General Mark Clark, land at Salerno in Italy.
1943 - German troops occupy Rome and take over the protection of the Vatican City. 1945 - Vidkun Quisling, Germany's 'puppet' premier of Norway during World War II is sentenced to death for collaborating with the enemy. He is executed on 24th October.
1935: Nuremberg party convention. Racial laws passed, swastika flag elevated to only national flag 1940: Wehrmacht loses 56 planes in the Battle of Britain
1891: Birthday of Karl Dönitz 1941: The Brits enforce abdication of Shah Resa I. Palevi, who had symphatized with the Germans, in favor of his son, Mohammed Resa I. Palevi.
1939: A week after making his first broadcast to Britain, the Irish ex-Mosleyite William Joyce is given a contract with German radio. In simultaneous announcements, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Iceland declare that they intend to continue trading with all belligerents to protect their economic existence. Soviet forces have advanced 100 km into Poland.
Monday, September 18, 1944: American B-17 bombers drop 1284 containers of supplies to the embattled Polish Home Army (AK) in Warsaw. Only 228 fall on territory still controlled by the Poles. This is the only major supply drop, by the western Allies, allowed by the Soviets. The US planes land on Soviet territory after completing their mission. [ 18. September 2004, 05:41 PM: Message edited by: Ancient Fire Resurgent ]
1882 Birthday of Wilhelm Keitel 1939 Death of Werner Freiherr von Fritsch, who had opposed the nazi war plans.
1939 - Within three weeks of the start of World War II, the Polish capital Warsaw urrenders to overwhelming German forces.
1939 - for the 4th time in its history, Poland is divided. This time along the river Bug between Germany and the Soviet Union.
1938 - British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and French leader Edouard Daladier sign the Munich Pact with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, thus giving the Sudetenland away to German conquest. In the summer of 1938, Hitler began openly to support the demands of Germans living in the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia for closer ties with Germany. The Czechoslovakian government opposed this threat to its sovereignty, especially after Hitler demanded the immediate cession of the Sudetenland region to Germany. By September 23, Czechoslovakia called for mobilization and war seemed imminent. Chamberlain and Daladier, unprepared for the outbreak of hostilities, traveled to Munich, where they gave into Hitler's demands. Daladier abhorred the Munich Pact's policy of appeasement towards the Nazis, but Chamberlain was elated, and declared before a jubilant crowd in London that the Pact brought peace in our time. On October 1, Germany annexed the Sudetenland, and within six months nearly all of Czechoslovakia was under German control. In September 1939, Hitler invaded Poland, and Chamberlain solemnly called for a declaration of war. 1944 - Liberation of Calais during World War II..
1946 - Nuremberg trials. Death sentences for Martin Bormann (in absence), Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Hermann Göring (commits suicide), Alfred Jodl, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg, Fritz Sauckel, Arthur Seyß-Inquardt und Julius Streicher.