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| 1944 August 1 |
| | | Members of the Polish resistance rise against the Germans in Warsaw, in a conflict lasting two months and bringing massive casualties | |
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| 1944 August 4 |
| | | The hiding place in Amsterdam of Anne Frank and her family is discovered by the Gestapo | |
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| 1944 August 15 |
| | | The Seventh US army, commanded by Alexander Patch, opens another front with a landing on the French Riviera | |
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| 1944 August 19 |
| | | George Patton gets a division of his Third US Army across the Seine southeast of Paris | |
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| 1944 August 19 |
| | | Barricades are built in the streets as Parisians stage an impromptu uprising against the Germans | |
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| 1944 August 24 |
| | | Tanks of the Second French Armoured Division are the first of the Allies to enter and liberate Paris | |
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| 1944 August 24 |
| | | Romania changes sides to fight with the Red Army against Germany | |
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| 1944 August 26 |
| | | General de Gaulle walks down the Champs Elysées, and then on to Notre Dame, to massive aclaim | |
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| 1944 September |
| | | Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat in Budapest, saves thousands of Jews from extermination | |
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| 1944 September 3 |
| | | British forces liberate Brussels and on the next day reach Antwerp | |
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