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| Russians fighting for Crimea. |
On April 8, 1944 Russuian forces led by Marshal Fedor Tolbukhin attacked German forces in an attempt to drive the Germans out of Crimea, in the southern Ukraine. The German defensive lines would only stand for four days against the Russians.
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| Dietrich Bonhoeffer. |
In 1945 Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is hanged at Flossenburg for opposing the Nazis. The corageous 39-year-old's last words were "This is the end for me, the beginning of life."
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| General Omar Bradley. |
In 1981 General Omar Bradley of the American 12th Army who ensured victory over Germany died.
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