In what was becoming a late war rarity, German and Estonian's in German service decisively defeated the Red Army's first Narva Offensive. The Estonian's were mostly recent volunteer conscripts, brought into service after Estonian leaders urged an end to an Estonian boycott of German conscription in hopes of defending Estonia from being retaken by the USSR.
The German 14th Army renewed attacks against the US VI Corps at Anzio.
Ukrainian's in German service carried out the Huta Pieniacka Massacre of ethnic Poles, killing between 500 and 1,200 people. The actions were carried out principally by police units of the 4th SS Volunteer Galician Regiment and the14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician), which were under German command at the time.
The 14th Waffen Grenadier Division continues to have fans in Ukraine today, who deny its association with atrocities. Many of its surviving members, who surrendered to the Western Allies late in the war, were allowed to immigrate to the United States and Canada in 1947, in part due to the intervention of Polish General Anders who knew some of its commanders due to their pre-war Polish Army service. In spite of claims to the contrary, the early arrival of the Cold War clouded their association with atrocities, which were accordingly not well known at the time, as Anders intervention demonstrates. The unit was sufficiently well thought of that a memorial to Ukrainians bearing their unit symbol was put to them in St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Cemetery, Oakville, Ontario.
Aviator Hanna Reitsch visited Hitler at Berchtesgaden to receive a second Iron Cross. She suggested kamikaze like volunteers there to fly piloted variants of the V-1. Hitler rejected the idea as a waste of resources.
Reitsch survived the war and went on to a long post-war life. She never disavowed her association with Hitler, but did heavily alter her pre-war racial views.
