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World War II History for September 25
1942 - British bombers attempted to destroy the local headquarters of the German Gestapo in Norway. The plan failed.
Germany invaded Norway in April 1940, in a stunning blitzkrieg campaign, a response to Britain’s laying of mines in Norwegian waters–which was itself a response to [...]
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World War II History for August 4
1944 - Anne Frank and her family arrested by Gestapo
On this day in 1944, a German-born Jewish girl and her family, who had been hiding in German-occupied Holland, are found by the Gestapo and transported to various concentration camps. The young girl’s diary of her [...]
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World War II History for May 23
1945 - Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi Gestapo, committed suicide while imprisoned by the Allied forces.
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World War II History for May 9
1936 - Italian forces took Ethiopia.
1941 - The German submarine U-110 was captured at sea by Britain’s Royal navy.
1945 - U.S. officials announced that the midnight entertainment curfew was being lifted immediately.
1945 - In the U.S., the wartime government ban on horse racing was lifted.
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HMS Ark Royal (91) was an aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy that served in the Second World War and was torpedoed on 13 November 1941 by the German submarine U-81. She was designed in 1934 to meet the limits of the Washington Naval Treaty, and was built by Cammell Laird and Company, Ltd. at [...]
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World War II History for March 24
1938 - The U.S. asked that all powers help refugees fleeing from the Nazis.
1944 - The Gestapo rounded up innocent Italians in Rome and shot them to death in response to a bomb attack that killed 32 German policemen. Over 300 civilians were executed.
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