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World War ll ((Auschwitz prisoners in Kolin, Czechoslovakia on 24 January…

- - - - During the final days of Auschwitz-Birkenau the SS set fire to warehouses of plundered property and records offices.
        
        Allied POW’s at Stalag VIIIB in Germany take advantage of a summer thunderstorm to have a wash.
        
        The city of Dresden is destroyed during four Allied bombing raids in February 1945.
        
        Margot and Anne Frank dies in concentration camp Bergen-Belsen from typhus in February 1945.
- - - - German parachutists. May 1940
        
        Burning streets in Rotterdam. May 14 1940
        
        The devastation of Rotterdam. May 23 1940.
        
        Hitler and his crew. May/June 1940
        
        St. Paul's Cathedral during the Blitz, Sunday 29 December [1940.]
        
        The Germans send the Afrika Korps to North Africa to reinforce the faltering Italians.
        
        A Soviet counteroffensive drives the Germans from the Moscow suburbs in chaotic retreat.
- - - - July 25, 1943
        The Fascist Grand Council deposes Benito Mussolini, enabling Italian marshall Pietro Badoglio to form a new government.
        
        September 8, 1943
        The Badoglio government surrenders unconditionally to the Allies. The Germans immediately seize control of Rome and northern Italy, establishing a puppet Fascist regime under Mussolini, who is freed from imprisonment by German commandos on September 12.
        
        September 9, 1943
        Allied troops land on the beaches of Salerno near Naples.
        
        January 22, 1944
        Allied troops land successfully near Anzio, just south of Rome.
        
        June 4, 1944
        Allied troops liberate Rome. Within six weeks, Anglo-American bombers could hit targets in eastern Germany for the first time.
        
        June 6, 1944
        British and US troops successfully land on the Normandy beaches of France, opening a “Second Front” against the Germans.
        
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