WHAT HAPPENED IN 1945.
Look what happened the 1945.

World War II: In retaliation for the Malmedy massacre, U.S. troops massacre 30 SS prisoners at Chenogne. (1. January 1945)

World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches Operation Bodenplatte, a massive, but failed attempt to knock out Allied air power in northern Europe in a single blow. (1. January 1945)

World War II: Nuremberg, Germany (in German, Nürnberg) is severely bombed by Allied forces. (2. January 1945)

World War II: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is placed in command of all U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima and Okinawa in Japan. (3. January 1945)

The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland. (5. January 1945)

World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge. (7. January 1945)

World War II: Philippine Commonwealth troops under the Philippine Commonwealth Army units enter the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attack Japanese Imperial forces. (8. January 1945)

World War II: The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines. (9. January 1945)

Greek Civil War: Last day of the Dekemvriana clashes in Athens, Greece. (11. January 1945)

Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker. (16. January 1945)

World War II: Soviet forces capture the almost completely destroyed Polish city of Warsaw. (17. January 1945)

The Nazis begin the evacuation of the Auschwitz concentration camp as Soviet forces close in. (17. January 1945)

Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into Soviet custody while in Hungary; he is never publicly seen again. (17. January 1945)

World War II: Liberation of the Budapest ghetto by the Red Army. (18. January 1945)

World War II: Liberation of Krakow, Poland by the Red Army. (18. January 1945)

World War II: Soviet forces liberate the Łódź ghetto. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, less than 900 had survived the Nazi occupation. (19. January 1945)

World War II: Hungary agrees to an armistice with the Allies. (20. January 1945)

World War II: Germany begins the evacuation of 1.8 million people from East Prussia, a task which will take nearly two months. (20. January 1945)

World War II: German admiral Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal. (23. January 1945)

World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends. (25. January 1945)