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April 20-21, 1945. On this date, SS guards evacuated prisoners from the Sachsenausen concentration camp in Germany.
April 25, 1945. On this date, Soviet and American troops met at Torgau, Germany.
April 30, 1945. On this date, Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his Berlin bunker.
September 2, 1945. On this date, Japan signed their surrender aboard the USS Missouri and ended World War II.
December 22, 1945. On this date, Harry S. Truman issued a directive giving US immigration preference to displaced persons.
April 11, 1945. On this date, the US Army liberated the Dora-Mittelbau (Nordhausen) concentration camp in Germany.
July 23, 1944. On this date, Soviet forces liberated the Lublin/Majdanek concentration camp in Poland.
November 29, 1945. On this date, the International Military Tribunal prosecution presented a film titled "The Nazi Concentration Camps."
November 21, 1945. On this date, Robert H. Jackson delivered opening statements at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg.
April 23, 1945. On this date, US forces liberated the Flossenbürg camp in Germany.
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