By late 1944, the United States, Canada, France, and Great Britain were closing in on Germany in the West, while the Soviets were closing from the East.

The massacre became a source of political controversy, with the Soviets eventually claiming that Germany committed the executions when the Soviet Union retook Poland in 1944.

Latvia's independent status was interrupted at the outset of World War II when in 1940 the country was forcibly incorporated into the Soviet Union, invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany in 1941, then retaken by the Soviets in 1944 after Germany surrendered.

On August 23, 1944, Marshal Ion Antonescu was arrested by King Michael, and later handed over to the Soviets.

By the late autumn of 1944, Soviet forces had ushered in a second phase of Soviet rule on the heels of the German troops withdrawing from Estonia, and followed it up by a new wave of arrests and executions of people considered disloyal to the Soviets.

The Soviets pushed further west, retaking Ukraine and eventually launching an unsuccessful invasion of eastern Romania in the spring of 1944.

After Soviet offensives were fought to a standstill, Ryti's successor as president, Marshall Mannerheim, dismissed the agreement and opened secret negotiations with the Soviets, which resulted in a ceasefire on 4 September and the Moscow Armistice on 19 September 1944.

From 1944, the advancing Red Army was also seen as a foreign occupation force, prompting skirmishes with the Soviets as well as Soviet-backed partisans.

Anklam was nearly completely destroyed by several bombing raids of the U. S. Airforce in 1943 and 1944 and in the last days of World War II, when the advancing Soviets burned and leveled most of the town.

In 1944, the Soviets built a " provisional " railway bridge across the strait.

It was annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, by Nazi Germany in 1941, and by the Soviets again in 1944.

This move can perhaps be explained in the context of the general post-war improvement of Finno-Soviet relations, which also included such steps as the Soviets ' return of the Porkkala Naval Base leased territory to full Finnish sovereignty ( January 1956 ), and leasing Maly Vysotsky Island and the Soviet section of the Saimaa Canal ( conquered by the USSR in 1940 and 1944 ) back to Finland ( 1963 ).

Celan remained imprisoned until February 1944, when the Red Army's advance forced the Romanians to abandon the camps, whereupon he returned to Cernăuţi shortly before the Soviets returned to reassert their control.

The Soviets initially overestimated the number of deaths, claiming in July 1944 that there were no fewer than 400, 000 Jewish victims, and the official Soviet count was of 1. 5 million victims of different nationalities, Independent Canadian journalist Raymond Arthur Davies, who was based in Moscow and on the payroll of the Canadian Jewish Congress, visited Majdanek on August 28, 1944.

At the end of the Second World War the Soviet Union secured the rights of lease to a naval base at Porkkala, in accordance with the Moscow armistice agreement that ended the Continuation War, between Finland and the Soviets on September 19, 1944.

During World War II, Keres participated in several tournaments in European regions under German occupation including those Nazi-organized ( 1942 Tallinn, Salzburg, Munich, 1943 Prague, Posen, Salzburg, Reval ), and when the Soviets occupied Estonia in 1944, he unsuccessfully attempted to escape to western Europe.

Although he at first refused to collaborate with the Soviets, after the attempted assassination of Hitler on 20 July 1944, Paulus became a vocal critic of the Nazi regime while in Soviet captivity, joining the Russian-sponsored National Committee for a Free Germany and appealing to Germans to surrender.

He continued to have strong reservations about the use of science to develop such a devastating weapon and was shocked in March 1944, at a private dinner at the Chadwick's, to hear Leslie Groves say " Of course, the real purpose in making the bomb was to subdue the Soviets ".

That barrier with its accompanying minefields effectively contained Soviet naval vessels to the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland until the autumn of 1944, when the Soviets were able to use Finnish coastal seaways to circumvent the barrier.

In 1944 the Soviets launched a major offensive against Finland, during which the navy fought in support of Finnish land forces the Gulf of Vyborg.

Although the Soviets managed to open a narrow land corridor to the city on 18 January 1943, lifting of the siege took place on 27 January 1944, 872 days after it began.

As the Soviets advanced through Poland in late 1944 the General Government collapsed.

In 1944 the Soviets regained Podolia and in 1945, when Poland ’ s eastern border was formally realigned along the Curzon line, the whole of Podolia remained in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

In 1944, van Vogt moved to Hollywood, California, where his writing took on new dimensions after World War II.

In 1944, his remains were moved to the House of the Temple, headquarters of the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite.

In 1944, with the threat of German flying bombs on London, Thomas moved to the family cottage in Blaen Cwm near Llangain, where Thomas resumed writing poetry, completing " Holy Spring " and " Vision and Prayer ".

The Mark I was moved to Harvard University and began operation in May 1944.

It was not until the fourth attempt that the Winter Line was breached by the Allies, and Alexander's forces moved on to capture Rome in June 1944, thereby achieving one of the strategic goals of the Italian campaign.

In October 1944 the production of Tiefland moved to Barrandov Studios in Prague for interior filming.

In the fall of 1944, following graduation from high school, Davis moved to New York City to study at the Juilliard School of Music.

Following Stalin's decision to deport the entire Chechen population on February 23, 1944, Khasbulatov was moved, along with his mother, to the Kazakh SSR ; his father, mortally ill, remained behind in hospitalization and soon died.

In 1944, Prokofiev moved to a composer's colony outside Moscow in order to compose his Fifth Symphony ( Op.

In August 1944, she was moved to Ravensbrück concentration camp, where over 92, 000 women died.

Howe acting as point man, moved the nuclear group from Montreal to Chalk River, Ontario in 1944, with the establishment of Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories and the residential town of Deep River, Ontario.

At the end of 1944 an additional 30, 000-60, 000 Poles were moved into the city after Nazis crushed the Warsaw Uprising In February 1945 the Soviet Red Army approached the city.

Their training started in November 1943 at Camp Pendleton, California, moved to Santa Catalina Island, California in January 1944, and finally moved to the warmer waters of The Bahamas in March 1944.

In late 1943, Bradley moved to London as commander in chief of the American ground forces preparing to invade France in 1944.

In 1938, Szasz moved to the United States, where he attended the University of Cincinnati for his Bachelor of Arts in medicine, and received his medical degree from the same university in 1944.

He moved to Danville, California in 1937 and lived there until 1944.

Following her parole in 1940, she moved to Parsonsburg, Maryland, where she resided until her death in 1944.

Yet, when his family moved to Chicago in 1944, his parents met a psychiatrist and family friend whose son was enrolled in the University of Chicago ’ s humanities program for gifted students.

In 1944, the couple moved from Topeka to Redding Ridge, Connecticut.

In 1944, Amish people moved to the area and established a community in the north of the county.

* Henry ( Hammerin Hank ) Aaron ( 1944 -) Right fielder, Born in Camden, moved to Mobile as a child