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Through the Years: 1945. “Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” - Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor . In the West. Feb 4 - 11:
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Through the Years: 1945 “Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” - Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor
In the West Feb 4 - 11: The 'Big Three' (Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill) meet in Yalta, USSR to decide who would get what when WWII is over.
Feb 13/14: German city of Dresden destroyed by Allied firebombs; city was packed with refugees from the east.
Eisenhower and the Allied troops survey the death and destruction at a concentration camp
A soldier poses in front of a rail car full of victims in Dachau Concentration Camp
April 12: US troops liberate Buchenwald concentration camp. April 12, 1945 is also the day that President Roosevelt dies. Truman is sworn into office to take over the role of the presidency.
April 28th Benito Mussolini along with his mistress, and other members of the Fascist Party are brutally beaten and hung by their feet. They are put on display in a town square in Milan for all to see.
In the East April 16th, Battle of Berlin Begins There is utter devastation for the city as Soviets gain more control
April 21: Soviet control most of Berlin Stalin orders his army to find Hitler at all costs
Hitler marries his longtime Mistress Eva Braun on April 29th, 1945 The next day, they commit join suicide in Hitler’s Bunker
In the Pacific February 3rd, 1945- The United States Firebombs Tokyo, Japan.
As the United States Firebombs Japan, scientists were working hard back on U.S. soil to finalize the development of the Atomic Bomb, and start testing. Planes fly over Tokyo and drop the fire bombs The results of the firebombing are severe, but only promote temporary political concern in in Japan. The U.S. moves to finish development on 2-3 atomic weapons that will warrant total devastation.
"...now I am become Death [Shiva], the destroyer of worlds..." Physicist Robert OppenheimerSupervising Scientist Manhattan Project on 16 July 1945 at 0529 HRS, in the Jornada del Muerto desert near the Trinity site in the White Sands Missile Range quoting from the Bhagavad-Gita upon witnessing first atomic detonation by mankind.
August 6th, 1945 the World’s First Atomic Bomb “Little Boy” is dropped on Hiroshima expl August 8th, 1945 Soviet Union Declares war on Japan August 9th, 1945 The world’s second (and LAST) Atomic Bomb “Fat Man” is dropped on Nagasaki.
