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* 1944 – Gerd Klier, German footballer ( d. 2011 )
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" The term made an impact into English pulp science fiction starting from Jack Williamson's The Cometeers ( 1936 ) and the distinction between mechanical robots and fleshy androids was popularized by Edmond Hamilton's Captain Future ( 1940 – 1944 ).
* 1944 – Felicity Palmer, English soprano
* 1944 – Georgios Balanos, Greek translator, author and publisher
* 1944 – John Kay, German-Canadian singer-songwriter and musician ( The Sparrows and Steppenwolf )
* 1865 – Max Nettlau, German anarchist and historian ( d. 1944 )
* 1944 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress ( d. 2010 )
* 1944 – G. W. Bailey, American actor
* 1944 – Jan Bols, Dutch speed skater
* 1944 – Inday Badiday, Filipino journalist ( d. 2003 )
* 1944 – The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
* 1944 – Continuation War: The Vyborg – Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during World War II, ends to a strategic stalemate.
* 1909 – Adam von Trott zu Solz, German diplomat ( d. 1944 )
* 1944 – Sam Elliott, American actor
* 1944 – Patricia McKissack, American author
* 1944 – Khaleda Zia, Bangladeshi politician, 9th Prime Minister of Bangladesh
Alexis Carrel ( June 28, 1873 – November 5, 1944 ) was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques.
* 1944 – Divina Galica, English skier and race car driver
* 1944 – Kevin Tighe, American actor
* 1944 – ASNOM: birth of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, celebrated as Day of the Republic in the Republic of Macedonia.
* 1944 – Jim Capaldi, English singer-songwriter and drummer ( Traffic ) ( d. 2005 )
* 1944 – Naná Vasconcelos, Brazilian singer and musician
* 1996 – John McSherry, American baseball umpire ( b. 1944 )
* 1944 – The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
* 1944 – Dmitry Nikolayevich Filippov, Soviet politician ( d. 1998 )
1944 and Gerd
In late 1944, the German army launched a last-ditch offensive across Belgium, Luxembourg, and northeastern France, popularly known as the Battle of the Bulge, nominally led by German Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt.
In May 1944, following the appointment of Gerd von Rundstedt as Commander-in-Chief in the West, Blaskowitz was appointed head of Army Group G. This comparatively small command, consisting of the 1st Army and the 19th Army, was given the task of defending southern France from the imminent Allied invasion.
Despite major misgivings from his senior commanders, including Gerd von Rundstedt and Walther Model, the plan was not modified and the jump-off date was eventually set as 16 December 1944.
In 1944, Buttlar-Brandenfels was Army Operations Chief ( OKW Major-General ) and played a major role in not releasing the panzer reserves ( Panzer Lehr and 12th SS Divisions ) requested by Gerd von Rundstedt, who was Generalfeldmarschall of the German army during the initial Normandy landings by Allied troops.
1944 and German
The Plague is in part a historical allegory, in which the plague signifies the German occupation of France from 1940 to 1944 during World War II.
* 1902 – Regina Jonas, German rabbi ( d. 1944 )
* 1886 – Ernst Thälmann, German politician ( d. 1944 )
* 1944 – Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre, during which time at least 40, 000 people were killed indiscriminately or in mass executions.
* 1944 – World War II: Liberation of Paris – Paris, France rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.
Direct assaults through the heavily defended city finally forced the German garrison to surrender on 21 October 1944.
* 1944 – World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
* 1944 – World War II: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.
* 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Narva ends with a combined German – Estonian force successfully defending Narva, Estonia, from invading Soviet troops.
* 1944 – Gerhard Schröder, German politician
While previously held elsewhere within or near the capital city, since 1918 it has been held on the Champs-Élysées, with the evident agreement of the Allies as represented in the Versailles Peace Conference, and with the exception of the period of German occupation from 1940 to 1944.
This was the first time German troops entered in France since 1944, sealing the definitive Franco-German reconciliation.
Prior to the Normandy landings on D-Day in June 1944, the Allies knew the locations of all but two of the 58 German divisions on the Western front.
* Bertha Benz ( 1849 – 1944 ), German marketing entrepreneur who was the first to drive an automobile for a long distance
The Hawker Typhoon posed a serious threat to German armour and motor vehicles during the Battle of Normandy in 1944.
In August 1944 at Mortain, stout defense and counterattacks against the German flanks by American and Canadian forces closed the Falaise pocket.
The German armament industry did not fully mobilize until 1944, and this has led to some historians in the 1960s, particularly Alan Milward, to develop a theory of blitzkrieg economics.
Carl Friedrich Michael Meinhof ( July 23, 1857 – February 11, 1944 ) was a German linguist and one of the first linguists to study African languages.
* 1944 – World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with the surprise offensive of three German armies through the Ardennes forest.
* 1944 – Botho Strauß, German author
* 1944 – Werner Scholz, German footballer
* 1944 – World War II: Battle of the Bulge – German troops demand the surrender of United States troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: " Nuts!
It was set up, not by the traditional German Army, but by the Nazi Party on the orders of Adolf Hitler on October 18, 1944.
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