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5 June — The German Navy's Enigma messages are decoded almost in real time. 6 June — World War II: Battle of Normandy : Operation Overlord , commonly known as D-Day , commences with the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France .
The Battle of Hürtgen Forest (German: Schlacht im Hürtgenwald) was a series of battles fought from 19 September to 16 December 1944, between American and German forces on the Western Front during World War II, in the Hürtgen Forest, a 140 km 2 (54 sq mi) area about 5 km (3.1 mi) east of the Belgian–German border. [1]
The Battle of Aachen was a battle of World War II, fought by American and German forces in and around Aachen, Germany, between 12 September and 21 October 1944. [4] [5] The city had been incorporated into the Siegfried Line, the main defensive network on Germany's western border; the Allies had hoped to capture it quickly and advance into the industrialized Ruhr basin.
Germany begins the Ardennes offensive, later known as the Battle of the Bulge. General George C. Marshall becomes the first U.S. Five-Star General. December 17 – WWII: Malmedy massacre: German SS troops under Joachim Peiper machine gun American prisoners of war captured during the Battle of the Bulge near Malmedy, and elsewhere in Belgium.
Clockwise from top left: Germany's V-2 rocket, aftermath of the Wola massacre in Poland, liberation of Paris, battle of the Philippine Sea. This is a timeline of events that occurred during 1944 in World War II.
In addition, political prisoners throughout Germany—and from 1941, throughout the occupied territories under the Night and Fog Decree (German: Nacht und Nebel)—simply disappeared while in Gestapo custody. [5] Up to 30 April 1944, at least 6,639 persons were arrested under Nacht und Nebel orders. [38]
By September 1944, Allied forces had broken out of their Normandy beachhead and pursued the remnants of the German armies across northern France and Belgium. Although Allied commanders generally favoured a broad front policy to continue the advance into Germany and the Netherlands, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery proposed a bold plan to head north through Dutch Gelderland, bypassing the ...
During the Uprising, on September 5, 1944, the library's warehouses were shelled by German artillery and burned almost completely. [16] Some of the books were preserved, thrown through windows by the library's staff. [16] The surviving collection was later deliberately burned by the Germans in October 1944 after collapse of the Uprising. [16]