1942 First "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz & Birkenau concentration camps.
1942 German offensive in North Africa under General Erwin Rommel.
1944 705 British bombers attack Essen.
1945 Allies led by US Marine Corps secure island of Iwo Jima from Imperial Japanese Army, after 18,000 Japanese & 6,000 Americans killed.
1945 British premier Winston Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg).
1945 Generals Eisenhower, Bradley and Patton launch attack at Remagen on the Rhine.
1945 US 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms.
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