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In 1944, the Polish government in exile considered its position boosted, as the Polish forces in the West were making a substantial contribution to the war: in May, the Second Corps under general Władysław Anders stormed the fortress of Monte Cassino and opened a road to Rome, in August general Stanisław Maczek's 1st Armored Division distinguished itself at the battle of Falaise, in September general Stanisław Sosabowski's Parachute Brigade fought hard at the battle of Arnhem.
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* 1944 – World War II: Canadian and Polish units capture the strategically important town of Falaise, Calvados, France.
* 1944 – World War II: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.
During the Warsaw Uprising ( 1944 ), a Poles | Polish couple, members of an Armia Krajowa resistance group, are married in a secret Catholic chapel in a street in Warsaw.
* 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, ends with the defeat of the Polish resistance forces.
* 1944 – The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland
The city was resettled with Poles, many of whom had themselves been expelled from Kresy ( see: Polish population transfers ( 1944 – 1946 )), and historic buildings were restored.
* The PKWN manifesto ( 1944 ), by Polish Committee of National Liberation
* 1944 – The city of Breda in the Netherlands is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.
Polish civilians murdered by Waffen-SS troops ( Azeri Waffen SS Volunteer Formations # Ostmuselmanische SS-Regiment | SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger ) in Warsaw Uprising, August 1944.
Whilst meantime, in Nazi-occupied Poland, the Council of National Unity was set up ; this body functioned from 1944 to 1945 as the parliament of the Polish Underground State.
In July 1944, Vilnius was taken from the Germans by the Soviet Army and the Polish Armia Krajowa ( see Operation Ostra Brama and the Vilnius Offensive ).
Two test launches were recovered by the Allies: the Bäckebo rocket which landed in Sweden on 13 June 1944 and one recovered by the Polish resistance on 30 May 1944 from Blizna and transported to the UK during Operation Most III.
Polish inmates hanged by Germans in Warsaw, February 11, 1944
Jewish prisoners of Gęsiówka liberated by Polish soldiers from Batalion Zośka, 5 August 1944
The Germans held the position until withdrawing on May 17, 1944, having repulsed four main offensives by the New Zealanders, British Indian regiment and Polish troops.
German losses to the Polish partisans averaged 850-1, 700 per month in early 1944 compared to about 250-320 per month in 1942.
Till 1944, Polish forces also outnumbered the French.
The numbers of Tito's Yugoslav partisans were roughly similar to those of the Polish and Soviet partisans in the first years of the war ( 1941 – 1942 ), but grew rapidly in the latter years, outnumbering the Polish and Soviet partisans by 2: 1 or more ( estimates give Yugoslavian forces about 800, 000 in 1945, to Polish and Soviet forces of 400, 000 in 1944 ).
In July 1944 it was captured by the Soviet Red Army and the Polish Home Army.
The départments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais ( with the exception of the coast, notably Dunkirk ) were, for the most part, liberated in five days, from the 1 to 5 September 1944 by British, American, Canadian, and Polish troops.
During World War II, in July 1944, the city was taken by the Polish II Corps as part of an Allied operation to gain access to a seaport closer to the Gothic Line in order to shorten their lines of communication for the advance into northern Italy.
* Jacek Sauk ( born 1944 ), Polish politician
1944 and government
* 1944 – World War II: King Michael of Romania dismisses the pro-Nazi government of Marshal Antonescu, who is arrested.
On 26 August 1944, the Fatherland Front made the decision to incite an armed rebellion against the government, which led to the appointment of a new government on 2 September.
As the Red Army invaded Bulgaria in 1944 and installed a communist government, the armed forces were rapidly forced to reorganise following the Soviet model, and were renamed as the Bulgarian People's Army ( Bulgarska Narodna Armiya, BNA ).
The ZAVNOH, state anti-fascist council of people's liberation of Croatia, functioned since 1944 and formed an interim civil government.
The heads of government of five members of the Commonwealth of Nations at the 1944 Commonwealth Prime Ministers ' Conference.
Frank Capra's Why We Fight ( 1942 – 1944 ) series was a newsreel series in the United States, commissioned by the government to convince the U. S. public that it was time to go to war.
* 1944 – Greek Civil War: Fighting breaks out in Athens between the ELAS and government forces supported by the British Army.
In September 1944, after German forces left, legal power was briefly restored as Otto Tief formed a new government in accordance with the 1938 constitution.
This government was later removed by the Free French Forces in August 1944.
Other seminal noir sleuths served larger institutions, such as Dana Andrews's police detective in Laura ( 1944 ), Edmond O ' Brien's insurance investigator in The Killers, and Edward G. Robinson's government agent in The Stranger ( 1946 ).
Despite most Guatemalans ' attachment to the original ideals of the 1944 uprising, some private sector leaders and the military began to believe that Arbenz represented a Communist threat and supported his overthrow, hoping that a successor government would continue the more moderate reforms started by Arevalo.
As the German defeat drew nearer, the various Greek political factions convened in Lebanon in May 1944, under British auspices, and formed a government of national unity, under George Papandreou, in which EAM was represented by six ministers.
German forces withdrew on 12 October 1944, and the government in exile returned to Athens.
Imperial Conferences ( Colonial Conferences before 1911 ) were periodic gatherings of government leaders from the self-governing colonies and dominions of the British Empire between 1887 and 1937, before the establishment of regular Meetings of Commonwealth Prime Ministers in 1944.
* 1944 – 1945 The killings of several suspected collaborators with the Haganah and the British mandate government during the Hunting Season.
* 1944 – In the Saskatchewan general election, the CCF, led by Tommy Douglas, is elected and forms the first socialist government in North America.
On 17 June 1944 on the Dalmatian island of Vis, the Treaty of Vis ( Viški sporazum ) was signed in an attempt to merge Tito's government ( the AVNOJ ) with the government in exile of King Peter II.
Konoe played a role in the fall of the Tōjō government in 1944.
After gaining independence in 1943, the Lebanese government formed an official delegation in 1944 to negotiate with the French the terms related to handing over the LAF.
* 1944 – Deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union government.
He proclaimed a revolt, on 1 February 1944, against the British mandatory government, which was opposed by the Jewish Agency.
Born in 1884 in French Guiana this descendant of African slaves was a key figure together with René Pleven in the organization by the De Gaulle government of the Brazzaville Conference of 1944, which took place between the January 30 and February 8, 1944 and which did set out the new direction of French colonial policies after World War II.
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