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3 days ago · Gjergj Kastrioti ( c. 1405 – 17 January 1468), commonly known as Skanderbeg, was an Albanian feudal lord and military commander who led a rebellion against the Ottoman Empire in what is today Albania, North Macedonia, Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro, and Serbia . A member of the noble Kastrioti family, he was sent as a hostage to the Ottoman court.
1 day ago · In the Autumn of 1944, the Soviets paused their offensive towards Berlin to first gain control over the Balkans. On 8 September 1944 the Red Army began an attack on the Dukla Pass on the Slovak–Polish border.
2 days ago · The Warsaw Uprising ( Polish: powstanie warszawskie; German: Warschauer Aufstand ), shortly after the war also known as the August Uprising ( Polish: powstanie sierpniowe ), [15] was a major World War II operation by the Polish underground resistance to liberate Warsaw from German occupation. It occurred in the summer of 1944, and it was led by ...
- 1 August – 2 October 1944, (63 days)
2 days ago · Soviet archives reveal that between May 1944 and January 1945 a total of 13,592 Crimean Tatars perished in exile, about 7 per cent of their entire population. [62] Almost half of all deaths (6,096) were of children under the age of 16; another 4,525 were adult women and 2,562 were adult men.
5 days ago · März 1944 marschiert die deutsche Wehrmacht das Land ein und schon gut einen Monat später, am 28. April, verlässt der erste Zug mit ungarischen Juden Budapest in Richtung Auschwitz. Innerhalb ...
5 days ago · Débarquement du 6 juin 1944 : le Jour J heure par heure. En quelques heures se joue le sort de l’opération Overlord, qui a nécessité des mois de préparation. De l’atterrissage des premiers parachutistes éclaireurs à minuit jusqu’à la retraite des panzers allemands vers Caen 24 heures plus tard, récit d’une journée où chaque ...
5 days ago · Situés entre Naples et Rome, ils ont marqué l’histoire de la Libération de l’Italie par la lutte du Corps expéditionnaire français en Italie (CEF) contre les troupes ennemies allemandes durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale de janvier à mai 1944.
