The 8th May 1945 was Victory in Europe Day – a public holiday to celebrate the end of the Second World War.
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6th February 2018
The Nazi Party founded a paramilitary organisation that became the Schutzstaffel, better known as the SS.
On the 22nd February 1943, the first three members of the White Rose resistance group were put on trial and executed by guillotine in Germany.
On the 27th January 1945, Soviet soldiers from the 322nd Rifle Division liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp near the Polish city of Oświęcim.
On the 12th December 1935, the Lebensborn registered association was established in Nazi Germany by the SS.
On the 20th November 1945 the first, and best known, of the Nuremberg Trials began.
On the 3rd September 1939, the Second World War officially began when France and the United Kingdom – together with Australia and New Zealand – declared war on Germany.
The 16th July 1945 marked the start of the atomic age when the USA detonated the first nuclear bomb under the codename ‘Trinity’.
British naval ships attacked the French Navy at Mers-el-Kébir in Algeria during the Second World War.
The 30th June 1934 saw the Nazis carry out a purge of their own party, when Hitler ordered the SS to murder leading figures of the SA or Brownshirts along with critics of the Nazi regime such as former chancellor von Schleicher.
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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