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Showing posts with label Austria. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Friday, January 2, 2026
Wednesday, January 2, 1946. Nuptials with the enemy.
Mexican troops fired on demonstrators in León, Mexico, killing at least 40.
The U.S. Army lifted a ban on U.S. servicemen marrying enemy nationals, save for Germans. The lift, therefore, applied to Austrians and Italians, as well as perhaps Hungarians and Romanians.
On Corregidor twenty Japanese soldiers, who had just learned of Japan's surrender from a newspaper, surrendered themselves to a solitary Army soldier.
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Tuesday, January 1, 1946. The first baby boomers.
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
Sunday, November 25, 1945. Taxing war profits.
MacArthur ordered the Japanese government to submit a plan to tax away all war profits.
The Austrian People's Party won the Austrian election. The Christian Democratic party still exists.
Zionist terrorists attacked coast guard stations near Tel Aviv.
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Thursday, November 22, 1945. Thanksgiving Day.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
Thursday, July 31, 2025
Tuesday, July 31, 1945. Little Boy assembled.
Little Boy was assembled on Tinian.
Pierre Laval was delivered to Linz Austria from Spain, where he was then turned over to the French.
Ethnic Germans were murdered in Ústí nad Labem, Czechoslovakia.
Field Marshal Alexander appointed Governor General of Canada.
The Takao is sunk by British frogmen with limpet mines at Singapore.
The US gives Japan a specific warning about eight cities being slated for destruction if Japan does not surrender.
Pro Nazi Lutheran minister and theologian Ludwig Müller committed suicide.
Gen. Artemio Ricarte y García, early pro independence Philippine general and collaborator with the Japanese, died of dysentery at age 78.
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Wednesday, July 30, 1945. Eisenhower questions the bomb.
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Tuesday, May 15, 1945. Germans fully surrendered, Chinese Army in retreat.
Army Group Center, now completely disintegrated, quit all resistance with troops surrender to the Western Allies where they cold, and to the Soviets if they could not.
Axis forces surrendered at Slovenski Gradek.
A new Austrian republic was declared.
Fighting was fierce again on Okinawa.
Burmese nationalist Aung San lead his forces into support of the Allies.
Japan abrogated its treaties with the other Axis countries.
The Battle of the Malacca Strait began between the Royal Navy and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
Chinese lines were broken by the Japanese, and the Chinese Army was in full retreat.
"MGs of the heavy weapons companies of 1st Bn., 100th RCT, fire on hill #2 in the Mangima Valley Area, Mindanao, P.I. 15 May, 1945. Photographer: O'Neill."
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Monday, May 14, 1945. Lingering actions.
Sunday, May 4, 2025
Friday, May 4, 1945. The war ends in northwest Europe.
British Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery accepted the unconditional surrender of the German forces in the Netherlands, northwest Germany including all islands, Denmark and all naval ships in those areas.
The US Seventh United States Army captured Innsbruck, Salzburg and Berchtesgaden.
German forces in northeast Germany, Czechoslovakia and Austria begin rearguard actions in an attempt to reach Anglo American lines.
The Red Army too the Oranienburg concentration camp.
Konrad Barde, 47, German Generalmajor committed suicide.
Fedor von Bock, 64, German field marshal was killed by a strafing British aircraft while traveling by car.
Yugoslav partisans entered Fiume.
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Thursday, May 3, 1945. Dönitz sends a surrender delegation.
Friday, May 2, 2025
Wednesday, May 2, 1945. Berlin taken.
The Red Army took Berlin.
Yevgeny Khaldei took the staged Raising a Flag over the Reichstag photograph, showing Soviet troops raising the flag of the Soviet Union atop the Reichstag. The unretouched variant is shown above, i which one soldier is wearing two watches, which was later edited out of the photo as at least one of them was no doubt picked up somewhere.
The Nisei 552nd Field Artillery Bn liberated a Dachau death march.
The Germans surrendered in Italy and Southern Austria. Among those going into Allied captivity is Dr. Wernher von Braun.
Admiral Dönitz's formed the Flensburg Government.
Eamon de Valera paid a visit to Dr Eduard Hempel, the German minister in Ireland, to offer his condolences on the death of Hitler. Nobody has ever been able to grasp this.
Erich Bärenfänger, 30, German Generalmajor, Martin Bormann, 44, German Nazi official; Wilhelm Burgdorf, 50, German general; Walther Hewel, 41, German diplomat; Hans Krebs, 47, German general; and Franz Schädle, 38, German commander of Hitler's personal bodyguard, killed themselves.
Peter Högl, 47, German SS-Obersturmbannführer, Ewald Lindloff, 36, Waffen-SS officerMartin Strahammer, 54, German Generalmajor; and Joachim von Siegroth, 48, German Generalmajor were killed in action.
The British landed on Rangoon.
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Tuesday, May 1, 1945. German radio reports Hitler dead.
Labels: 1940s, 1945, Adolf Hitler, Battle of Tarakan, Borneo, Germany, Joseph Goebbels, Karl Dönitz, Operation Oboe, Radio, Rape and the Red Army, The Battle of Halbe, World War Two
Sunday, April 27, 2025
Friday, April 27, 1945. Mussolini captured by Partisans, Second Austrian Republic comes into being.
Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were captured by partisans while attempting to cross into Switzerland.
The Red Army took Potsdam, Prenzlau, Angemunde and Tempelhof airfield.
US troops liberated Kaufering concentration camp.
The Western Allies rejected Himmler's peace offer for the Germans to lay down their arms in the west and sent a reminder that the German surrender was to be unconditional.
One of the interesting things here is that its not entirely clearly that the Western Allies understood the offer the way it was made. Theoretically, it might have been possible to accept the offer as a largescale troop surrender which, while it would have ended fighting in the west, it would not have ended the war against Germany.
The U.S. Fifth Army reached Genoa, Italy, which was mostly already liberated by Italian partisans.
SS architect Hans Schleif committed suicide at age 43. Schleif had been involved in removing cultural material from Poland, but he oddly never really seemed to be fully on board with the worst elements of Nazism. His death was probably needless, but he probably would have served time after the war.
Former Austrian chancellor Karl Renner set up a provisional government composed of Social Democrats, Christian Socialists, and Communists and proclaimed the reestablishment of Austria as a democratic republic. This became the Second Austrian Republic, which remains today.
US and Philippine forces commenced the Battle of Davao. US forces took Baguio.
U.S. troops firing a pack howitzer in the Philippines, April 27, 1945.
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Thursday, April 19, 1945. Broadcasting from Belsen.
Army machine gunners on Okinawa, April 19, 1945. Not the visible rear sight on the M1917 machine gun and the high angle the gun is being used at.
The Battle of the Seelow Heights ended in Soviet/Polish victory.
The US 1st Army took Leipzig.
Robert Cappa, the famous photographer, took a series of photos in an event that occurred in this battle, in which a tank crewman who was manning a machinegun in a building was killed by a German sniper. The bloody scene and the soldier's lifeless body is the recalled photograph. A nearly as dramatic photo of another crewman stepping over him to man the gun is not as well recalled.
Richard Dimbleby broadcast the conditions of Belsen on the BBC.
The Battle of Odžak began in Croatia between Yugoslav Partisans and the Axis aligned Croatian Armed Forces. The last battle to be fought in the Second World War in Europe, it would continue until May 25.
Pyinmana, the base of the Japanese aligned Burma Defence Army, fell to the 5th Indian Division.
Japanese Gen. Sōsaku Suzuki, age 53, was killed in action in the Philippines.
Nazi Party member Fritz Wächtler, age 54, was executed by the Nazis for desertion over the surrender of Bayreuth. The charge was unjust and due to rivalry on the part of other Nazis.
It's amazing to think of this sort of infighting when it should have been obvious they'd all be facing trials by the victors soon.
The U-251, U-548 and U-879 were sunk.
Johnny Kelley won the Boston Marathon.
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Wednesday, April 18, 1945. The death of Ernie Pyle.Labels: 1940s, 1945, Adolf Hitler, Army, Canadian Army, Heroes, Mussolini, Okinawa, The Holocaust, The Press, The written word, Waffen SS, World War Two
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Tuesday, April 3, 1945. The Germans began the evacuation of Buchenwald.
The Germans began the evacuation of Buchenwald.
Soviet forces take Wiener Neustadt
Elements of the US 40th Division landed on Masbate to assist Filipino guerillas.
"Pfc. Thomas Powell, North Platte, Nebr., 5th Cav., guards the main street of San Pablo, Luzon, P.I, with his machine gun, and covers himself completely with his poncho in the tropical rain. 3 April, 1945. Photographer: T/4 Wendinger. Photo Source: U.S. National Archives. Digitized by Signal Corps Archive."
Kamikazes were active off of Okinawa.
"Men of an antitank company keep on the alert for enemy action atop a hill in Okinawa.
Left to right, Pfc. George Harrington, Brooklyn N.Y., Cpl Joe Irvin, Elgin, Ill., and Pfc Leland Beleme, Merced, Cal. 3 April 1945."
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Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Monday, April 2, 1945. Easy advances on Okinawa.
Operation Roast ended in a British victory in Italy.
The British 2nd Army took Munster.
The Red Army launched the Vienna Offensive. They also took Magykanizsa and Kremnica.
The US 10th Army made easy advances on Okinawa.
U.S. artillerymen, Okinawa, April 2, 1945.
Part of the US 163d Regiment landed on Tawitawi, in the Sulu Archipelago.
The U-321 was sunk by a Vickers Wellington of No. 304 Polish Bomber Squadron southwest of Ireland.
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Sunday, April 1, 1945. Operation Iceberg.
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Easter Sunday, April 1, 1725. Bach's Easter Oratorio.
Bach’s Easter Oratorio, the companion piece to his Passions was first performed in an Easter service in Leipzig, April 1, 1725. The composer conducted.
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Monday, March 26, 1725. Monday of Holy Week for 1725.
Friday, December 20, 2024
Saturday, December 20, 1924. Hitler released from prison.
That really didn't work out the way predicted.
All the magazines had a Christmas theme that Saturday.
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Wednesday, December 17, 1924. An election and a promise.
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Thursday, October 16, 1924. See See Rider.
Incarcerated menace Adolf Hitler published a statement admitting that he was born in Austria, not Germany, but arguing that he had lost his Austrian citizenship after volunteering to serve in the German Army during World War I . He claimed that mentally, he'd always been a German.
He nonetheless did not renounce his Austrian citizenship until 1925, and didn't acquire German citizenship until 1932.
Ma Rainey recorded See See Rider, the first known recording of the blues standard which has an unknown origin and date of origin. It's at least a couple of decades older than the recording.
Ma Rainey.
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Wednesday, October 15, 1924. Airship and a proclamation.
Sunday, October 6, 2024
Friday, October 6, 1944. Collapsing.
Officials of the Serbian puppet government fled to Austria.
The Battle of Debrecen began in Hungary.
The Dumbarton Oaks Conference concluded.
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Thursday, October 5, 1944. Fuzhou and Memel.
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