Today in
World War II History
World War II History
1939 - Canada declared war on Germany.
1940 - In Britain, Buckingham Palace was hit by German bomb.
1942 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt mandated gasoline rationing as part of the U.S. wartime effort.
1943 - German forces began their occupation of Rome during World War II.
1945 - Vidkun Quisling was sentenced to death in Norway for his collaboration with Nazi Germany after the 1940 invasion. He was the founder of Norway's National Party in 1934, which was an imitation of Hitler's National Socialist Party.
1948 - Mildred "Axis Sally" Gillars was indicted for treason in Washington, DC. Gillars was a Nazi radio propagandist during World War II. She was convicted and spent 12 years in prison.
1952 - The German and Israeli government signed an agreement that provided almost a billion dollars in reparations for Nazi war crimes against Jewish people.
1989 - The Hungarian government opened its border for East German refugees.
2002 - The film "Max" had its world premiere. The movie stars John Cusack as a fictional Jewish gallery owner that becomes mentor to Adolf Hitler.
| "We secured peace for our country for one and a half years, as well as an opportunity of preparing our forces for defense if fascist Germany risked attacking our country in defiance of the pact. This was a definite gain to our country and a loss for fascist Germany." Josef Stalin - July 3, 1941 - (Speaking of the 1939 non-aggression pact between the USSR and Germany) |
