1944

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1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year of the Gregorian calendar, which began on Saturday.

Events

World War II

January

1 January: Himmler reports that 25,000 Waffen-SS soldiers are Ukrainian.
4 January: The Red Army passes the barrier before the war between Poland and the USSR in Wolyn.
24 January: A special Soviet commission claims that the Nazis are guilty of the Katyn massacre.
January 29: Jewish and Lithuanian partisans kill 300 villagers, most women and children, in Koniuchy, for resistance against their raids.
January 31: Landing American forces in the Marshall Archipelago.

February
1 February: General Franz Kutschera, head of German Warsaw Police, is assassinated by a group of young AK members. In retaliation, the Nazis shoot 100 prisoners at the place where he was killed and another 200 near the Pawiak prison.
February 5: The Soviets conquer the city of Lutsk.
February 9: In Lesno, 60 women working on railways are executed by the Nazis in retaliation against an act of sabotage.
22 February: The NKVD troops surround hundreds of Chechen villages in the USSR and in 24 hours deport their population to Siberia. Around 530,000 Chechens die, survivors could only return home in 1956.
February 27: German forces assisted by SS- Gallizien and UPA attack Huta Pieniacka, causing 500-800 casualties.

March
12 March: Ukrainian SS troops and supporters of Bandera, massacred 250 Poles in a Dominican monastery in Podkamien, 600 others killed in catunes.
17 March: Hitlerists assassinate nearly 400 prisoners, Soviet citizens and anti-Nazis in Rîbnita.
March 18: Nazi troops occupy Hungary.
March 21: C.I.C. Brătianu and Iuliu Maniu address Marshal Ion Antonescu with a letter requesting Romania's exit from the war.
23 March: The Nazis and the Ukrainians burn down all the inhabitants of Huta Werchobuska for housing the Jews.
23 March: The attack on Via Rasella, Rome.

April
April 2: Declaration by the U.R.S.S. on guaranteeing Romania's sovereignty and integrity under unconditional surrender.
April 4: The massive bombing of Anglo-American aviation on Bucharest. 313 bombers and 119 fighter planes are involved. 2,942 people died and 2,416 others were injured.
April 5: 230 bombers escorted by 180 fighter planes bombarding the city of Ploiești. Just like the previous day, several bombers launched their wrong cargo, the bombs falling in the center of the city. 278 civilians, 16 Romanian soldiers and 26 German soldiers were killed.
10 April: Liberation of Odessa.
12-15 April: Liberation of the cities of Kerci, Simferopol and Levpatoria.
15-16 April: The first night bombing of British aviation on Romania: 83 Wellington bombers attack Turnu Severin. Another bombing on the Severe Tower