Ostensibly exploring the practice of law before the internet. Heck, before good highways for that matter.
Sunday, May 18, 2025
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Tuesday, May 8, 1945. Victory In Europe.
A second surrender signing insisted upon by Stalin took place in Berlin with a slightly revised instrument of surrender. The original would have sufficed, but Stalin insisted.
This one was signed, for the Germans, by Field Marshal Keitel.
And the war in Europe came to an end.
Celebrations broke out all across Western Europe and North America, which in some instances had begun the day prior. Winston Churchill announced new of the 11:00 p.m. singing at 3:00 p.m. Truman at 9:00 a.m., warning that the war was only half won. All times local.
Karl Dönitz announced the in a speech broadcast from Flensburg at 12:30 p.m., mentioning that the Nazi Party no longer had any role in government.
Hermann Göring surrendered near Radstadt, Austria. Eisenhower would be upset when he learned of the celebrity status his American captors had given him.
German submarines were ordered to surface and report to the Allies.
The Massacre in Trhová Kamenice occurred when German troops in Trhová Kamenice, Czechoslovakia shot supposed partisans. In spite of the surrender, some German forces did not lay down their arms on the 8th.
The Sétif and Guelma massacre began when French police fired on local Algerian demonstrators at a protest in the Algerian market town of Sétif. The beginning of decolonization had begun.
Gen. Ernst-Günther Baade, age 47, died of gangrene; Paul Giesler, age 49, German Nazi official committed suicide; Werner von Gilsa, age 56, German military officer committed suicide after being captured by the Russians; Wilhelm Rediess, age 44, German commander of SS troops in Norway committed suicide; Bernhard Rust, age 61, German Nazi Minister of Science, Education and National Culture committed suicide; Josef Terboven, age 46, German Reichskommissar for Norway during the Nazi occupation committed suicide by detonating dynamite in a bunker.
The US 145th Infantry division took the the ridge near Guagua, southeast of Mount Pacawagan on Luzon and blocked a track along the Mariquina river.
Last edition:
Monday, May 7, 1945. Germany unconditionally surrenders.
Saturday, May 3, 2025
2025 Elections In Other Countries.
April 29, 2025.
Canada
The Liberal Party narrowly won a fourth term. It's unclear at the present time if they won a plurality or majority of the votes, but a plurality that's a near majority seems likely, which means they'll need the cooperation of minor parties, which they've gained in the past.
The result is a stunning reversal in fortune. The party's fortunes just several months ago made it appear that it was doomed to defeat, but Donald Trump's assisinne ramblings about annexing Canada as s state revived its fortunes as it's last premier, Justin Trudeau, resisted such calls and insults, and the current one, Mark Carney, stepped out aggressively against them and American tariffs.
May 3, 2025
Australia
Australia's center-left government dramatically increased its majority after the conservative Liberal-National coalition suffered a major defeat.
Conservatives noted that Donald Trump's spastic bizarre example of the far right in the US helped boost the fortunes of the left, making this the second election in an English speaking country where that has occurred.
Last edition:
2024 Elections In Other Countries.
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Tuesday, May 1, 1945. German radio reports Hitler dead.
Sunday, April 27, 2025
Sunday, April 13, 2025
Friday, April 13, 1945. Bitter end.
The Red Army took Vienna and began the Samland Offensive.
Members of the SS and Luftwaffe German SS and Luftwaffe burned 1,016 slave laborers alive in a large barn at Gardelegen.
New Zealander troops captured Massa Lombarda, southwest of Lake Comacchio, Italy.
American forces land on Fort Drum,"the Concrete Battleship", in Manila Bay. They poured 5,000 gallons of oil fuel into the fortifications and set it on fire, whereupon it burned for five days.
Last edition:
Thursday, April 12, 1945. The death of Franklin Roosevelt
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Britain, Germany Issue Emergency Guidance
I'm not a "prepper", and frankly I tend to find preppers a bit amusing. But when European governments that are a lot more sane than the gerontocracy running the United States right now start issuing war warnings and commence telling their populations how to prepare for war, well, it's at least taking some noted of.
Both Germany and the UK, both of which are not afflicted by wackadoodle administrations like ours currently is, have done so:
Britain, Germany Issue Emergency Guidance
Have done with childish days—The lightly proffered laurel,The easy, ungrudged praise.Comes now, to search your manhoodThrough all the thankless years,Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,The judgement of your peers.
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Thursday, March 29, 1945. The first Public Passover Sedar in Germany since 1938.
The Battle of the Heiligenbell Pocket ended in a victory for the Red Army.
The 7th Army took Mannheim and Heidelberg.
The last V1 to hit London did so.
US forces landed near Bacolod in the Philippines.
Last edition:
Wednesday, March 28, 1945. Guderian gets his release.
Friday, March 28, 2025
Wednesday, March 28, 1945. Guderian gets his release.
Hitler fired Guderian as Chief of the OKH following an argument. His replacement was Hans Krebs.
Guderian, as we've noted before, would survive the war. He was released from being held as a POW in 1948, never prosecuted for war crimes, and died in 1954 at age 65.
Krebs killed himself on May 2, 1945.
Eisenhower telegrammed Stalin with his plans for advancing in Germany. The British, who were not consulted, protested.
The Red Army captured Balga.
The U.S. 80th Infantry Division captured Wiesbaden.
The 3d Corps took Marburg.
The USS Trigger was sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy in the East China Sea.
The Battle of Slater's Knoll began between Australian and Japanese forces on Bougainville.
Last edition:
Tuesday, March 27, 1945. The last rockets.
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Sunday, March 25, 1945. Crossing the Rhine.
The Battle of Remagen ended in a US victory.
The Red Army began the Bratislava–Brno Offensive.
Winston Churchill, accompanied by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, crossed the Rhine near Wesel in an Allied landing craft.
The trip was legitimately dangerous.
Allied forces began to cross or advance from the Rine nearly everywhere.
Today in World War II History—March 25, 1940 & 1945: 80 Years Ago—Mar. 25, 1945: US Seventh Army crosses the Rhine at Worms. US Fifteenth Air Force based in Italy flies its last strategic bombing mission of WWII.
Aachen's post Nazi mayor Franz Oppenhoff, age 42, was assassinated by the SS.
Task Force 58 conducted air raids on Okinawa.
Marine Corps Maj. Gen. William H. Rupertus, age 55, died of a heart attack. He was the author of the Rifleman's Creed;
Rifleman's Creed
This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
My rifle is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life.
Without me, my rifle is useless. Without my rifle, I am useless. I must fire my rifle true. I must shoot straighter than my enemy who is trying to kill me. I must shoot him before he shoots me. I will ...
My rifle and I know that what counts in war is not the rounds we fire, the noise of our burst, nor the smoke we make. We know that it is the hits that count. We will hit ...
My rifle is human, even as I [am human], because it is my life. Thus, I will learn it as a brother. I will learn its weaknesses, its strength, its parts, its accessories, its sights and its barrel. I will keep my rifle clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready. We will become part of each other. We will ...
Before God, I swear this creed. My rifle and I are the defenders of my country. We are the masters of our enemy. We are the saviors of my life.
So be it, until victory is America's and there is no enemy, but peace!
Sunday, March 23, 2025
Friday, March 23, 1945. Rhine flood.
Hitler approved withdrawing German forces across the Rhine, but the order came too late to avoid 50% of those troops already being lost on the opposite bank.
U.S. and Filipino troops captured San Fernando on Luzon.
The Indian 20th Infantry Division took Wundwin, Burma.
Last edition:
Thursday, March 22, 1945. Operation Plunder.
Saturday, March 22, 2025
Thursday, March 22, 1945. Operation Plunder.
Operation Plunder commanded by Field Marshall Montgomery was launched which saw the 21st Army Group cross the Rhine.The Rhine was crossed was at Rees, Wesel, and south of the river Lippe by the British Second Army under Lieutenant General Miles Dempsey, and the United States Ninth Army under Lieutenant General William H. Simpson.
The U.S. 5th Infantry Division of the 3d Army crossed the Rhine near Nierstein.
Don Juan, pretender to the Spanish Crown, demanded Franco's resignation.
Kamikazes make significant strikes on Task Force 58, including with the new Yokosuka MXYZ Ohka suicide rocket plane.
The Arab League was established.
Last edition:
Wednesday, March 21, 1945. Ohka.
Sunday, March 16, 2025
Friday, March 16, 1945. Luzon Language Edition.
Franklin Roosevelt stated in a press conference that Americans would need to sacrifice so that food could be shipped to countries devastated by war.
The 41st Infantry Division landed on Basilan, Philippines
The U-367 hit a mine and sank northeast of Danzig.
Last edition:
Thursday, March 15, 1945.
Friday, March 14, 2025
Saturday, March 14, 1925. Spring.
France's Senate Finance Committee voted to keep its embassy at the Vatican, over the wishes of Prime Minister Édouard Herriot.
The Council of the League of Nations expressed its hopes that Germany would join the body.