Video: '"If I Loved You" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel (stage version)'
(Thursday, April 19, 1945, 8:15 p.m. EWT) — Carousel the second musical by the team of Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics) about a carousel barker whose romance with a millworker comes at the price of both their jobs, opened tonight on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre.
Video: 'Memory of the Camps 1985 PL hardsubs DVBRip' (liberation at 50:58)
(Thursday, April 19, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — Leipzig-Thekla, a subcamp of the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Leipzig, Germany, was liberated today by the U.S. 69th Infantry Division.
The camp had been established in September 1943 to supply labor for the German war effort. At its height, Leipzig-Thekla held approximately 1,400 prisoners.
Video: 'The World At War 1973(World War II Documentary)Episode 21-Nemesis:Germany(February-May 1945)' (Apr. 18, 1945, at 21:23)
(Wednesday, April 18, 1945; on the Western Front of World War II) — The Ruhr Pocket, a battle of encirclement that took place in late March and early April 1945 in the Ruhr Area of Germany, essentially ended today, marking the end of major organized resistance on Nazi Germany’s Western Front as 325,000 troops were taken prisoner.
Video: 'Ernie Pyle'
(Wednesday, April 18, 1945, 10:15 a.m. JST; during the Battle of Okinawa, part of the Pacific Theatre of World War II) — Famed American war correspondent Ernie Pyle, 44, was killed instantly today by Japanese gunfire on the Pacific island of Ie Shima, off Okinawa.
Video: 'The Sinking of the MV Goya - Jessica'
(Monday, April 16, 1945, 11:52 p.m. CEST; during World War II) — A Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea torpedoed and sank the MV Goya, a Norwegian motor freighter which Germany was using to transport civilian refugees and wounded soldiers.
The sinking of the Goya was one of the biggest single-incident maritime losses of life of the war, and as such one of the largest maritime losses of life in history, with just 183 survivors among roughly 6,700 passengers and crew.
Video: 'Truman takes over 1945' (Apr. 16, 1945, at 0:10)
(Monday, April 16, 1945, 1:00 p.m. EWT; during World War II) — U.S. President Harry S. Truman pledged himself today before a joint session of Congress to carry out the war and peace policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who died of a stroke four days ago (click here to watch a clip of Apr. 16, 1945, from “American Experience: Truman” at 1:33:52). Continue reading President Truman vows war to finish, strong peace 70 years ago this hour (Apr 16 1945)
Video: 'The Great War episode 8 War Without End' (Apr. 16, 1945, at 45:32)
(Monday, April 16, 1945, during World War II) — Six days before she died, Käthe Kollwitz, 77-year-old German printmaker and sculpto whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition, and the tragedy of war, in the first half of the 20th century, composed her final letter today, writing “the accompanies me to the end.”
Video: 'The World At War 1973(World War II Documentary)Episode 21-Nemesis:Germany(February-May 1945)' (Apr. 16, 1945, at 16:16)
(Monday, April 16, 1945; during the Battle of Berlin on the Eastern Front during World War II) — The final chapter in the destruction of Hitler’s Third Reich began today when the Soviets unleashed the brutal power of 20 armies, 6,300 tanks and 8,500 aircraft with the objective of crushing German resistance and capturing Berlin.
By prior agreement, the Allied armies (positioned approximately 60 miles to the west) halted their advance on the city in order to give the Soviets a free hand.
Video: 'Bombardment of Ie Shima, Invasion Of Okinawa, 04/1945 (full)'
(Monday, April 16, 1945; during the Battle of Okinawa, part of the Pacific Theatre of World War II) — The 77th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army assaulted Ie Island (Ie Shima), a small island off the western end of the Motobu Peninsula of Okinawa.
Video: 'FDR: A Presidency Revealed: Part 19' (Apr. 15, 1945, at 2:35)
(Sunday, April 15, 1945, 11:00 a.m. EWT; during World War II) — In the hedge-enclosed garden of his ancestral Hyde Park estate in New York, high above the eternal flow of the Hudson, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was laid at rest this morning in the presence of President Harry S. Truman and ranking officials of this country and representatives of other nations. Continue reading President Franklin Roosevelt buried at Hyde Park 70 years ago this hour (Apr 15 1945)
