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World War II History
World War II History
1943 - U.S. President Roosevelt announced that several Doolittle pilots had been executed by the Japanese.
1945 - Soviet forces assaulted the headquarters of the German High Command in south Berlin.
| "God grant that this is the work of the Communists. You are witnessing the beginning of a great new epoch in German history. This fire is the beginning." - German Chancellor Adolf Hitler while speaking to a foreign correspondent as the Reichstag burned, 1933. |
