Today in World War II History—January 4, 1944: 80 Years Ago—Jan. 4, 1944: Church authorities at the Abbey of Monte Cassino in Italy give the Luftwaffe permission to remove artwork to Germany.
Sarah Sundin.
The move was taken to attempt to protect it from destruction.
Sundin also notes that the Italian Social Republic seized Jewish assets and restricted the Jewish ownership of property.
The Red Army took Bila Tserkva and further pushed the German Army Group South beyeond the pre war Polish border at Sarny. It also took Kaluga, southwest of Moscow.
German radio announced a decree to mobilize school children for war purposes.
At that point, the German people really should have realized the war was irrevocably lost and have risen up against their government.
The Polish Home Army commenced Operation Tempest, a series of local uprising that would go on for a year.
Carrier born U.S. aircraft struck Kavieng on New Ireland, damaging the destroyer Fumitsuki.
Argentina recognized Bolivia's military government.
The Roosevelt's deeded their Hyde Park house to the U.S. Government.
Jean Tatlock, American psychiatrist, and a Communist who wrote for the Western Worker, was found dead of suicide. He burned her correspondence prior to calling the authorities.
She is best remembered for having been a romantic interest of J. Robert Oppenheimer.
