Diary April 16, 1944

04-1944, Diary WW2, War Diary, Year 1944 / 1 minute of reading

'selection' at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp — Hungarian Jews on the selection ramp of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.

WW2 War Diary for Sunday, April 16, 1944:

Occupied Territories

Hungary: Eichmann begins systematic concentration of 800,000 Hungarian Jews in ghettos prior to their deportation to Auschwitz. Concentration phase completed early July; deportation phase completed end July.

Eastern Front

Southern Sector: Yalta (Crimea) captured by Russian ‘Independent Maritime Army’.
Central Sector: Germans launch fruitless counter-attack against 3rd Byelorussian Front bridgeheads over river Niemen.

Air War

Eastern Europe: Russians bomb Galatz (Rumania).

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Kretaner

My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.

Occupied Territories

Eastern Front

Air War

About The Author

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