Germany 1944 (IV)Although Hitler ordered that Paris, France, be destroyed by German troops, the German commander of Paris, General Dietrich von Choltitz, ignored the order. The general believed that would be a wanton act of destruction with no purpose.
Choltitz surrendered his army to the French Second Armored Division, commanded by General Jacques Leclerc, on August 25, 44. The Second Armored Division was the first of the French forces to enter Paris.
* August 1944 - Nonobservant Jews in Berlin, who had been freed, are arrested again and deported to Auschwitz. Auschwitz III, which was a synthetic rubber factory, was bombed by Allied planes based in Italy.
* August 1 - The Soviets liberate Kovno, Lithuania. Non-Jewish citizens of Kovno murder a local carpenter because he had hidden Jews a few weeks earlier. A Catholic philanthropist, Guiseppe Pardo Roques, in Pisa, Italy is murdered by the Nazis, along with four gentiles and seven Jews he had sheltered.
* August 1 - October 4 - About 1,000 Jews working with the Polish underground mount a revolt against the Germans in Warsaw. The Allies drop supplies from the air, and suffer heavy casualties.
* August 4 - An SS sergeant and five Dutch Security Police, acting on a tip, discover Anne Frank and her family hiding in Amsterdam. All are arrested.
* August 9 - A train bound for Dachau leaves Warsaw on August 4. When it arrives on August 9, 2000 of the 3600 on board are dead.
* August 15 - August 25 - A general anti-German uprising occurs in Paris.
* August 20 - The U.S. Army Air Force bombs Auschwitz III. 127 bombers escorted by 100 fighters drop 1300 five-hundred pound bombs. One Allied bomber is shot down.
* August 23 - The Romanian dictator is ousted and Romania joins the Allies.
* August 25 - The Germans surrender in Paris.
* September 1944 - After an American bomber hits a factory at Auschwitz, SS troopers give inmates medical attention, flowers and chocolate. This is propaganda for the German media. Once these inmates have recovered, they are exterminated! Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister, orders that a Jewish Brigade of Palestinian Jews be established. Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Secretary, is displeased.
* September 3 - Brussels, Belgium is liberated by the Allies.
* September 5 - The Nazis hear a rumor that Holland is being liberated and head for the hills. The day gets the name, "Mad Tuesday."
* September 15 - The Allies liberate Nancy, France.
* September 16 - Following a Communist coup, Bulgaria declares war on Germany.
* September 26 - Yom Kippur. At Auschwitz, 1000 young boys are gathered in front of Dr. Josef Mengele. Any boy whose head does not reach a board Mengele has nailed to a post is set aside for gassing.
The Nazis continue to deport Jews to the death camps. They murder thousands of Jews on a daily basis throughout Occupied Europe. The Nazis killed over one million Jewish children. Their brutality toward children was beyond belief. Because their mantra was that all Jews should work and children could not work they were usually exterminated immediately. "Preadolescents accompanied their mothers into the gas chambers, while babies were often tossed into pits filled with burning corpses." A young person who made it through the selection process became a slave laborer. Slave laborers were starved, beaten and literally worked to death. Many young children were subjected to inconceivably horrible medical experiments.
To be continued...
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