WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO SEPTEMBER 1944
Find out what all happened August to September 1944

World War II: Menton is liberated from Germany. (8. September 1944)

IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I). (7. August 1944)

Slovak National Uprising takes place as 60,000 Slovak troops turn against the Nazis. (29. August 1944)

Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Klooga, Estonia. (28. September 1944)

World War II: The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities. Near Trier, American troops enter Germany for the first time. (12. September 1944)

The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time. (9. August 1944)

World War II: Liberation of Paris – Paris, France rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops. (19. August 1944)

Battle of Hürtgen Forest between United States and Nazi Germany begins. (19. September 1944)

World War II: Operation Market Garden fails. (26. September 1944)

The Holocaust: a tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others. (4. August 1944)

World War II: Allied Airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden. (17. September 1944)

World War II: The first Allied troops of the U.S. Army cross the western border of Germany. (11. September 1944)

World War II: the British 11th Armoured Division liberates the Belgian city of Antwerp. (4. September 1944)

Continuation War: The Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during the Second World War, ends to a strategic stalemate. Both Finnish and Soviet troops at the Finnish front dug to defensive positions, and the front remains stable until the end of the war. (9. August 1944)

World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces. (14. September 1944)

World War II: The city of Ypres, Belgium is liberated by allied forces. (6. September 1944)

Armistice between Finland and Soviet Union is signed. (End of the Continuation War). (19. September 1944)

Holocaust: diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from the Westerbork transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, arriving three days later. (3. September 1944)

World War II: The Nazis begin a week-long massacre of anywhere between 40,000 and 100,000 civilians and prisoners of war in Wola, Poland. (5. August 1944)

Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps' 1st Marine Division and the United States Army's 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery. (15. September 1944)