Video: 'WW2: The Liberation of Holland' (Holland liberated at 41:33)
(Saturday, May 5, 1945, 8:00 a.m. CEST; on the Western Front of World War II) — Canadian and British troops liberated the Netherlands and Denmark this morning as a German surrender went into effect. Continue reading Denmark, the Netherlands liberated 70 years ago this hour (May 5 1945)
Video: 'KZ Neuengamme Concentration Camp (Short Film)'
(Friday, May 4, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The Neuengamme concentration camp, a subcamp of Sachsenhausen concentration camp located near the village of Neuengamme in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany, was liberated today by British forces. Continue reading Nazi concentration camp Neuengamme liberated 70 years ago today (May 4 1945)
(Sunday, May 3, 1945; part of the Pacific Theatre of World War II) — Allied forces recaptured Rangoon (Yangon) in Burma from the Japanese today.
Video: 'Wöbbelin Concentration Camp, Ludwigslust, Germany, 05/05/1945 (full)'
(Wednesday, May 2, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The Wöbbelin concentration camp, a subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp near the city of Ludwigslust, Germany, was liberated today by American forces. Continue reading Nazi concentration camp Wöbbelin liberated 70 years ago today (May 2 1945)
Video: 'Lordan Zafranovic: Jasenovac - The Cruelest Death Camp of All Times (1983)'
(Wednesday, May 2, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The main camp of the extermination camp Jasenovac, established in Slavonia by the authorities of the German puppet Independent State of Croatia (NDH), was fully liberated today by Yugoslav Partisans.
From 1941 to 1945, an estimated 100,000 people were killed at Jasenovac.
Video: 'Battlefield S1/E6 - The Battle of Berlin' (May 2, 1945, at 1:49:26)
(Wednesday, May 2, 1945, 6:00 a.m. CEST; during the Battle of Berlin on the Eastern Front during World War II) — Berlin, greatest city of the European Continent, fell today to the Russians as German General Helmuth Weidling finally surrendered with his staff and 70,000 German troops laid down their arms. Continue reading Germans surrender Berlin to Soviet forces 70 years ago this hour (May 2 1945)
Video: 'World War 2 II in Colour The Second World War in Colour FULL FILM DOCUMENTARY]' (May 1, 1945, at 2:08:08)
(Tuesday, May 1, 1945, 9:40 p.m. CEST; during the Battle of Berlin on the Eastern Front during World War II) — The radio station Reichssender Hamburg interrupted their normal program tonight to announce that an important broadcast would soon be made. After dramatic funeral music by Wagner and Bruckner, Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz (appointed as Hitler’s successor in his will) announced that Hitler was dead (Hitler had actually committed suicide the previous day).
Tonight’s announcement immediately followed the suicide of Hitler’s propaganda minister, Josef Goebbels.
Video: 'Queen For a Day Radio Show Jan 23 1951'
(Monday, April 30, 1945, 2:30 p.m. EWT; during World War II) — Queen for Today (later Queen for a Day), a radio game show that helped to usher in American listeners’ and viewers’ fascination with big-prize giveaway shows, premiered today on the Mutual Radio Network in New York City.
Video: 'The World At War 1973(World War II Documentary)Episode 21-Nemesis:Germany(February-May 1945)' (Apr. 30, 1945, at 46:10)
(Monday, April 30, 1945, 3:30 p.m. CEST; during the Battle of Berlin on the Eastern Front during World War II) — As Soviet troops approached his Berlin bunker, Adolf Hitler committed suicide today along with his wife of one day, Eva Braun.
Hitler, 56, shot himself and Braun, 33, took cyanide.
In accordance with Hitler’s instructions, the bodies were burned in the garden behind the Reich Chancellery.
Video: 'Dachau Concentration Camp Liberation'
(Sunday, April 29, 1945, 11:00 a.m. CEST; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The remaining 3,000 inmates, including 1,400 women, at the Nazi concentration camp Dachau, located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory southeast of the medieval town of Dachau, about 16 km (10 mi) northwest of Munich, were liberated today by American troops. Continue reading Nazi concentration camp Dachau liberated 70 years ago this hour (Apr 29 1945)
