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1944: Key Dates

The year 1944 was the last full year of World War II in Europe and an intense period of mass killing in the Holocaust. That year, Allied forces achieved major military victories, driving Nazi Germany further into retreat. For the first time, the Allies also liberated Nazi concentration camps. But Allied conquests did not stop the Nazi mass murder of Jews. It continued on a mass scale at the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center throughout 1944.