Editing 1945

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== Events ==
* 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 [[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki|detonated over Hiroshima]] in an attempt to coerce [[Imperial Japan]] into accepting the Potsdam Declaration.
* August 9 - The atomic bomb "Fat Man" is [[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki|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 [[Nazi Party|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 == 
=== Villain births ===
* January 2 - [[Slobodan Praljak]]
* January 4 - [[Giuseppe Piromalli (born 1945)|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]]
* July 20 - [[Larry Craig]]
* 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 ===
* January 15 - William R. Higgins
* November 16 - David Gunn
* Unknown - Maria Cícera de Faria

== Deaths ==

=== Villain deaths ===
* 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 ===
* 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)''