WHAT HAPPENED IN 1945.
Look what happened the 1945.

World War II: The Red Army begins encircling the German Fourth Army near Heiligenbeil in East Prussia, which will end in destruction of the 4th Army two months later. (26. January 1945)

World War II: Audie Murphy in action that will later win him the Medal of Honor. (26. January 1945)

World War II: The Red Army liberates the remained inmates of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp built by the Nazi Germans on the territory of Poland. (27. January 1945)

World War II: Supplies begin to reach the Republic of China over the newly reopened Burma Road. (28. January 1945)

World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with German refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, leading to the deadliest known maritime disaster, killing approximately 9,500 people. (30. January 1945)

World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: 126 American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberate over 500 prisoners from the Cabanatuan POW camp. (30. January 1945)

US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War. (31. January 1945)

World War II: About 3,000 inmates from the Stutthof concentration camp are forcibly marched into the Baltic Sea at Palmnicken (now Yantarny, Russia) and executed. (31. January 1945)

World War II: As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 to 3,000 and dehouses another 120,000. (3. February 1945)

World War II: The United States and the Philippine Commonwealth begin a month-long battle to retake Manila from Japan. (3. February 1945)

World War II: Santo Tomas Internment Camp is liberated from Japanese authority (4. February 1945)

World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea. (4. February 1945)

World War II: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations. (4. February 1945)

World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila. (5. February 1945)

World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada commence Operation Veritable to occupy the west bank of the Rhine. (8. February 1945)

World War II: The Battle of the Atlantic – HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat. (9. February 1945)

World War II: A force of Allied aircraft unsuccessfully attacked a German destroyer in Førdefjorden, Norway. (9. February 1945)

World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army. (13. February 1945)

World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment. (13. February 1945)

World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony. (14. February 1945)