1945
January 17 Soviet troops liberate Warsaw.
January 27 Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz. 5,000 starving inmates are found still alive.
April 11 U.S. troops liberate Buchenwald.
April 12 Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies of a cerebral hemorrhage.
April 28 Benito Mussolini is shot by a firing squad in Milan.
April 30 Adolph Hitler commits suicide in Berlin.
May 7 Germany surrenders.
August 15 Japan surrenders. World War II is over.
November 22 The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials begin.
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