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10 events · 5 research items · May 22, 1948 to August 18, 2026
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Auschwitz Is Liberated
Published Research World Wars: Power, Conflict & Consequence

Auschwitz Is Liberated

27 January 1945 — Soviet troops reach the Auschwitz concentration and extermination complex in occupied Poland. They find thousands of surviving prisoners and extensiv...

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Auschwitz Is Liberated
Published Research World Wars: Power, Conflict & Consequence

Auschwitz Is Liberated

27 January 1945 — Soviet troops enter the Auschwitz concentration and extermination complex. They find thousands of surviving prisoners whom the SS had been unable to ...

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Commissar Order
Published Research World Wars: Power, Conflict & Consequence

Commissar Order

6 June 1941 — The German High Command issues the Commissar Order before the invasion. Political commissars captured with Soviet forces are to be separated and killed r...

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SS Stages the Gleiwitz Incident
Published Research World Wars: Power, Conflict & Consequence

SS Stages the Gleiwitz Incident

31 August 1939 — German operatives stage a fake Polish attack on the radio station at Gleiwitz and other frontier incidents as part of efforts to manufacture a propaga...

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