Video: 'The HORRIFIC Execution Of Eddie Slovik - The American Shot For Desertion In WW2'
(Wednesday, January 31, 1945, 10:04 a.m. local time; during World War II) — Pvt. Eddie Slovik, 24, today became the first U.S. soldier since the Civil War to be executed for desertion as he was shot by an American firing squad in France near the village of Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines.
Video: 'Hitler last speech January 30 1945'
(Tuesday, January 30, 1945, recorded earlier for broadcast at 10:00 p.m. Central European Time; during World War II) — Adolf Hitler marked the 12th anniversary of his appointment as Germany’s chancellor with his last public speech in which he called on Germans to keep resisting until victory.
Video: 'Rescuing the Most Doomed American Soldiers of WW2 - The Great Raid'
(Tuesday, January 30, 1945, 7:40 p.m. local time; in the Pacific Theatre of World War II) — 552 Allied captives held at the Japanese prison camp in Cabanatuan in the Philippines were liberated today by U.S. Army Rangers, Alamo Scouts and Filipino guerrilla fighters.
Video: 'The Battle of the Bulge: World War II's Deadliest Battle' (Jan. 28, 1945, at 1:19:05)
(Sunday, January 28, 1945, 7:00 p.m. local time; during the Battle of the Bulge on the Western Front of World War II) — The Battle of the Bulge, a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe, ended today when the Americans, who suffered 19,246 killed, forced the Germans back to their start line.
Video: 'The Liberation Of Auschwitz - Bringing Freedom To The Death Camp'
(Saturday, January 27, 1945, at around 3:00 p.m. local time; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — 7,500 prisoners (including Otto Frank, the father of diarist Anne Frank) at Auschwitz, a network of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps near the German-occupied Polish town of Oswiecim, were liberated this afternoon as soldiers of the 60th Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front marched into the camp, ten days after 58,000 detainees were evacuated under guard, largely on foot. Continue reading Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland liberated by Soviets 80 years ago this hour (Jan 27 1945)
Video: 'The Battle of the Bulge: World War II's Deadliest Battle' (Jan. 22, 1945, at 1:11:36)
(Monday, January 22, 1945; during the Battle of the Bulge on the Western Front of World War II) — “Patton called Bradley and urged that all armies attack, whether they were fatigued or had losses or not…”
Video: 'Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1945 Presidential Inauguration'
(Saturday, January 20 1945, a few minutes after noon EWT) — Franklin Delano Roosevelt, nearing his sixty-third birthday, stood today at the White House bareheaded and without an outside coat, despite raw, wintry weather, to become the nation’s first fourth-term President. Continue reading FDR sworn in for unprecedented fourth term as U.S. President, Truman as 34th VP 80 years ago this hour (Jan 20 1945)
Video: 'The World At War 1973 WW2 EP 19 From Bluray: Battle of the Bulge' (Jan. 20, 1945, at 45:47)
(Saturday, January 20, 1945; during the Vistula–Oder Offensive, part of the Eastern Front of World War II) — Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov’s tanks today entered Germany proper for the first time, a mere 100 miles from Berlin.
Video: 'Chelmno Extermination Camp English Version'
(Saturday, January 20, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — Chelmno, a Nazi German extermination camp situated 31 miles from Lodz near the Polish village of Chelmno nad Nerem, was liberated today by the Soviets, two days after operations had ceased. Continue reading Soviets liberate Chelmno extermination camp in Poland 80 years ago today (Jan 20 1945)
Video: 'The Battle of the Bulge: World War II's Deadliest Battle' (Jan. 17, 1945, at 1:09:33)
(Wednesday, January 17, 1945; during the Battle of the Bulge on the Western Front of World War II) — “The day after Houffalize was taken, Patton congratulated his corps commanders on their victory at the Battle of the Bulge, but whatever the papers said, this fight was not over…”
