1945

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Events[edit]

January 25 - End of the Battle of the Bulge.
January 27 - Auschwitz concentration camp is liberated by the Soviet Union.
February 13 to 15 - The Bombing of Dresden takes place.
March 3 - The Manila Massacre takes place.
April 21 - Jasenovac concentration camp is closed down.
April 29 - Dachau concentration camp is liberated by the American army. The Dachau Massacre subsequently occurs.
April 30 - Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva Braun commit suicide inside the Führerbunker in Berlin. In his last will and testament, he names Karl Dönitz President of Germany and Joseph Goebbels Chancellor of Germany.
May 1 - Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda commit suicide after poisoning their children with cyanide.
May 2 - Karl Dönitz establishes the Flensburg Government after being appointed President of Germany.
May 3 - The Italian Social Republic surrenders its last remaining territories. End of the Allies' offensive in Italy.
May 7 - Nazi Germany surrenders, ending World War II in Europe.
May 7 - The Arrow Cross Party is dissolved.
May 9 - The League of Communists of Yugoslavia declares Yugoslavia to be liberated from Ustaše rule. Ustaše leader Ante Pavelić flees into exile.
June 13 - The Taisei Yokusankai dissolves.
August 6 - The first atomic bomb to be used in warfare, called "Little Boy", is detonated over Hiroshima in an attempt to coerce Imperial Japan into accepting the Potsdam Declaration.
August 9 - The atomic bomb "Fat Man" is detonated over Nagasaki. The Soviet Union subsequently launches an invasion of Japanese territory, terminating the Japanese control of Manchukuo, Mengjiang (Inner Mongolia), northern Korea (North Korea), Karafuto, and the Chishima Islands (Kuril Islands).
August 10 - The Chinese Civil War resumes between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China.
August 16 - The Second Philippine Republic and the Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China both collapse.
August 17 - Beginning of the Indonesian War of Independence.
September 2 - Imperial Japan accepts the Potsdam Declaration, ending World War II outside of Europe. The Axis Powers are officially dissolved.
September 2 - Hồ Chí Minh declares Vietnam to be independent from France. Emperor Bảo Đại is subsequently forced to abdicate.
October 11 - Francisco Franco orders all Spanish forces to withdraw from the Tangier International Zone.
October 29 - Getúlio Vargas is deposed as President of Brazil by the Brazilian military.
November 1 - The Night of the Trains: Irgun and Lehi conduct a joint sabotage operation to sabotage British railways all across Mandatory Palestine.
November 20 - The Nuremberg trials begin: trials against 22 Nazis for war crimes of World War II start at the Palace of Justice, Nuremberg.
November 29 - Josip Broz Tito declares the formation of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Births[edit]

Villain births[edit]

January 2 - Slobodan Praljak
January 4 - Giuseppe Piromalli
March 9 - Dennis Rader
March 13 - Christopher Wilder
March 28 - Rodrigo Duterte
May 5 - JCX Simon
May 20 - Vladimiro Montesinos
June 6 - Arthur Shawcross
June 11 - Trevor Hardy
June 19 - Radovan Karadžić & Aung Sang Suu Kyi
June 26 - Dwight York
August 11 - Prawit Wongsuwan
September 30 - Ehud Olmert
October 13 - Desi Bouterse
October 29 - Leonard Lake
November 8 - Joseph James DeAngelo
November 9 - Richard Goldberg
November 11 - Daniel Ortega
November 22 - Robert Ben Rhoades
December 2 - Charles "Tex" Watson

Victim births[edit]

January 15 - William R. Higgins
November 16 - David Gunn
Unknown - Maria Cícera de Faria

Deaths[edit]

Villain deaths[edit]

February 3 - Roland Freisler
February 10 - Ernst-Heinrich Schmauser
February 23 - Rudolf Lange (presumed)
March 22 - Eliyahu Bet-Zuri
April 10 - Horst Böhme
April 15 - Joachim Albrecht Eggeling
April 20 - Herbert Lange
April 24 - Ernst-Robert Grawitz
April 26 - Sigmund Rascher
April 28 - Hermann Fegelein and Benito Mussolini
April 29 - Achille Starace
April 30 - Adolf Hitler
May 1 - Joseph Goebbels
May 2 - Martin Bormann, Ludwig Stumpfegger, Walther Hewel, Wilhelm Burgdorf, Peter Högl, Eduard Weiter, and Hans Krebs
May 8 - Bernhard Rust, Josef Terboven and Wilhelm Rediess
May 10 - Richard Glücks
May 14 - Wilhelm Werner
May 18 - William Joseph Simmons
May 19 - Philipp Bouhler
May 23 - Heinrich Himmler
May 27 - Rudolf Querner
May or June - Margot Dreschel
June 2 - August Hirt
June 7 - Oskar Dirlewanger
August 20 - Genrikh Lyushkov
September 20 - Eduard Wirths
October 15 - Pierre Laval
October 24 - Vidkun Quisling
October 25 - Robert Ley
November 30 - Erich Zoddel
December 1 - Anton Dostler
December 13 - Josef Kramer, Juana Bormann, Irma Grese, Fritz Klein and Franz Hössler
December 19 - John Amery
December 29 - Augusta Gein

Victim deaths[edit]

January 6 - Edith Frank
February or March - Anne and Margot Frank
April 9 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
May 1 - Helga, Hilde, Helmut, Holdine, Hedda, and Heide Goebbels
August 11 - Róża Berger
November 2 - Thora Chamberlain (disappeared, believed dead)