date |
year |
description of clip |
01 Apr |
1944 |
19325 000 German troops encircled in the Ruhr
|
02 Apr |
1941 |
Rommel takes Agadabia
|
03 Apr |
1939 |
Hitler gives orders to prepare 'Plan Weiss' - the attack on Poland
|
04 Apr |
1945 |
Germans leave Hungary
|
05 Apr |
1945 |
Patton is 100 km east of the Rhine after fast advance
|
06 Apr |
1941 |
Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece
|
07 Apr |
1939 |
Mussolini occupies Albania
|
08 Apr |
1940 |
British mine Norwegian fjords
|
09 Apr |
1940 |
Germany invades Denmark/Norway - '44 US-Philippine troops surrender at Bataan
|
10 Apr |
1942 |
The Americans finally give up and leave Bataan in the Philippines
|
11 Apr |
1941 |
The Deutche Afrika Korps surrounds Tobruk
|
12 Apr |
1945 |
President Roosevelt dies
|
13 Apr |
1941 |
Belgrade falls to German forces
|
14 Apr |
1945 |
US and British forces launch drive towards the Po River
|
15 Apr |
1940 |
British troops start landing Narvik, Bodø, Namsos and Åndalsnes
|
16 Apr |
1945 |
Soviet offensive from bridgehead on the Oder - start of the assault on Berlin
|
17 Apr |
1945 |
British troops liberate KZ-camp Bergen-Belsen
|
18 Apr |
1943 |
Walrus recues Spitfire pilot ditched in the English Channel
|
19 Apr |
1945 |
US First Army takes Leipzig and Halle
|
20 Apr |
1945 |
US Seventh Army reaches Nuremberg
|
21 Apr |
1945 |
Zhukov's Eighth Army reaches Berlin suburbs
|
22 Apr |
1941 |
Greek First Army trapped in the Metsovon Pass and surrenders
|
23 Apr |
1945 |
US Eighth Army captures Cebu in the Philippines
|
24 Apr |
1945 |
Soviet forces surround Berlin
|
25 Apr |
1945 |
Soviet and American troops meet on the Elbe at Torgau
|
26 Apr |
1945 |
Fierce Japanese resistance on Okinawa
|
27 Apr |
1941 |
German troops enter Athens
|
28 Apr |
1945 |
Mussolini executed
|
29 Apr |
1945 |
Hitler marries Eva Braun
|
30 Apr |
1945 |
Hitler commits suicide
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