Diary January 26, 1940
Friday, January 26, 1940 Home Fronts France: Paul Ferdonnet, the ‘Radio Traitor’ – notorious for his pro-Nazi broadcasts in French language from Stuttgart – is tried in absentia by a […]
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Diary January 26, 1945
Friday, January 26, 1945 Russian Front Rokossovsky breaks through the Gulf of Danzig, virtually isolating German forces in East Prussia. Western Front Lieutenant Audie Murphy, most decorated US soldier of
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Diary January 25, 1945
Thursday, January 25, 1945 Sea War Baltic – GREATEST EVACUATION IN HISTORY: 1,500,000Â – 2,000,000 German troops and civilians rescued by May 8 from East Prussia, Pomerania and Courland in
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Diary January 25, 1940
Thursday, January 25, 1940 Occupied countries Poland – ‘Goring-Frank Circular’: all material resources and manpower to be ruthlessly exploited for the immediate benefit of the Reich (copies of this top-secret
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Diary January 24, 1945
Wednesday, January 24, 1945 Sea War Indian Ocean: British Pacific Fleet carriers attack Pladjoe and Soengi-Gerong oil refineries at Palembang, Sumatra (January 24 and 29): Pladjoe plant severely damaged and
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Diary January 24, 1940
Wednesday, January 24, 1940 Finland Winter War: Fierce fighting northeast of Lake Ladoga. Finns repel all attacks.
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Diary January 23, 1940
Tuesday, January 23, 1940 Home Fronts Britain: Large number of road accidents in the ‘black-out’ necessitates reduction in speed limit from 30 mph (ca. 48 km/h) to 20 mph (ca.
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Diary January 23, 1945
Tuesday, January 23, 1945 Russian Front Konev‘s forces reach river Oder on 64-km front. Zhukov captures Bromberg. Himmler takes personal command of ‘Army Group Vistula‘. Home Fronts France: Charles Maurras,
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Diary January 22, 1945
Monday, January 22, 1945 Sea War North Sea: German E-boats attack convoy north of Dunkirk. German 8th S-boat Flotilla penetrates into Thames Estuary.
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Diary January 22, 1940
Monday, January 22, 1940 Finland Winter War: Finnish authorities announce the formation of a Foreign Legion, including British volunteers.
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Diary January 21, 1940
Sunday, January 21, 1904 Air War Finland: Finnish Blenheim bombers raid Kronstadt naval base, near Leningrad (today St Petersburg). Russians bomb Oulu, northwest Finland. Sea War North Sea: RN destroyer
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Diary January 21, 1945
Sunday, January 21, 1945 Russian Front East Prussia: Rokossovsky captures Tannenberg.
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Diary January 20, 1945
Saturday, January 20, 1945 Russian Front 3rd Belorussian Front (CherniaÂkhovsky) captures Tilsit, East Prussia. Politics Armistice between ProÂvisional National Government (Communists) of Hungary and the Allies: war declared on Germany
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Diary January 20, 1940
Saturday, January 20, 1940 Politics Britain: Churchill broadcasts appeal to neutral States to join Britain and France in resisting Nazi aggression. He compares their timid conduct with the crocodile’s victims
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Diary January 19, 1940
Friday, January 19, 1940 Finland Winter War: Heavy fighting continues on three fronts. 45 °C (81 °F) of frost recorded. Sea War Destroyer HMS Grenville mined and sunk off Thames Estuary. Neutrals
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