Today in
World War II History
World War II History
1936 - Adolf Hitler told a crowd of 300,000 that Germany's only judge is God and itself.
1939 - The Nazis dissolved the republic of Czechoslovakia.
1945 - In Germany, a 22,000 pound "Grand Slam" bomb was dropped by the Royal Air Force Dumbuster Squad on the Beilefeld railway viaduct. It was the heaviest bomb used during World War II.
1947 - Moscow announced that 890,532 German POWs were held in the U.S.S.R.
| "The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last drop of blood for our towns and villages...onward, to victory!" Josef Stalin - July 1941 |
