** 25 cent WWII ( Dutch coin )

** WWII: Forward elements of General Hoeppner's XVI Panzerkorps take up positions outside Warsaw.

** WWII: Polish troops on the Westerplatte are forced, due to lack of food and ammunition, to surrender.

** WWII – Sonderaktion Krakau: Germans take action against scientists from the University of Kraków and other Kraków universities at the beginning of WWII.

** WWII – Winter War: Soviet forces attack Finland and reach the Mannerheim Line, starting the war.

** WWII – Sweden declares non-belligerency in the Winter War.

** George Unwin, British fighter ace of WWII ( d. 2006 )

** WWII: The 27th Polish Home Army Infantry Division is re-created, marking the start of Operation Tempest by the Polish Home Army.

** WWII: The Japanese launch an offensive in central and south China.

** WWII: A train stalls inside a railway tunnel outside Salerno, Italy ; 521 choke to death.

** WWII: Battle of Monte Cassino: Allied aircraft bomb German-held monastery and stage an assault.

** WWII: The National Council of the French Resistance approves the Resistance programme.

** Operation Bagration: A general attack by Soviet forces clears the German forces from Belarus, resulting in the destruction of German Army Group Centre, possibly the greatest defeat of the Wehrmacht during WWII.

** WWII: At Camp Hood, Texas, future baseball star and 1st Lt. Jackie Robinson is arrested and later court-martialed for refusing to move to the back of a segregated U. S. Army bus.

** WWII: Over 500 Japanese prisoners-of-war attempt a mass breakout from the Cowra POW Camp.

** WWII: A Soviet patrol arrests Raoul Wallenberg in Hungary.

** WWII: The Soviet Union occupies Warsaw, Poland.

** WWII: " Black Friday ": A force of Allied Bristol Beaufighter aircraft suffers heavy casualties in an unsuccessful attack on German destroyer Z33 and escorting vessels sheltering in Førde Fjord, Norway.

** WWII – Operation Varsity: Two airborne divisions capture bridges across the Rhine River to aid the Allied advance.

** WWII: The Battle of Königsberg, in East Prussia, ends.

** WWII – Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops link up at the Elbe River, cutting Germany in two.

** V-E Day ( Victory in Europe, as Nazi Germany surrenders ) commemorates the end of WWII in Europe, with the final surrender being to the Soviets in Berlin, attended by representatives of the Western Powers.

** WWII: Emperor Hirohito announces Japan's surrender on the radio.

** WWII: Korea gains independence following Japan's surrender.

** The Germans used the words " Ziffer " ( digit ) and " Chiffre ".

** Battle of Monte Cassino: The Germans evacuate Monte Cassino and Allied forces take the stronghold after a struggle that claimed 20, 000 lives.

** American forces push back the Germans in St.

** British forces launch Operation Goodwood, an armoured offensive aimed at driving the Germans from the high ground to the south of Caen.

** The Wilhelm Gustloff, with over 10, 000 mainly civilian Germans from Gotenhafen ( Gdynia ) in the Gdansk Bay, is sunk by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea ; up to 9, 400 are thought to have died – the greatest loss of life in a single ship sinking in war action in history.

** WWII: In Washington, DC, six Germans would-be saboteurs are executed.

** Germans

** Baltic Germans

** " Assassination on City Hall " – as it was dominated by Germans, the Execution Department of Worker's and Soldier's Council proceeded to Poznań's City Hall, an armed group of Poles forced them to change four of the German Delegates with Poles: Bohdan Hulewicz, Mieczysław Paluch, Henryk Śniegocki and Zygmunt Wiza.

** Germans recapture Chodzież and Czarnków.

** Evidence of false information about Polish attacks on German civilians published by authorities in Berlin, suggesting behavior like that of Germans themselves, is sent to Paris.

** Flight and expulsion of Germans during and after WWII

** Flight and expulsion of Germans from Poland after World War II

** Expulsion of Germans after World War II

** The Germans make the first operational use of their radio-controlled Henschel Hs 293 anti-ship missile.

** The Germans scuttle the incomplete aircraft carrier Seydlitz – the proposed name " Weser " for her had never been officially assigned – at Königsberg to prevent her capture by the Soviet Union.

** Expulsion of Germans after World War II

** Edward Granville Eliot, 3rd Earl of St Germans ( 29 August 1798 – 7 October 1877 )

** Four Sleipner class ships: Æger ( sunk, 9 April ), Sleipner ( escaped to the UK after fighting the German invasion ), Gyller and Odin ( both captured by the Germans at Kristiansand 9 April )

** one of these involved Igo Sym, a Polish actor who had been informing the Germans about Home Army operations

** Volume II: The Germans Come to the Help of Their Ally, 1941, Major-General I. S. O. Playfair et al., 1956

** 2, 680 Germans ( 67 %)

** 3, 111 Germans ( 60 %)