March 6

A group of Dutch Resistance fighters.

Lt. Gen. Hanns A. Rauter.

On March 6, 1945 Dutch Resistance fighters attempt to hijack a truck in Apeldoorn, Holland, mistakenly ambush SS officer Lt. Gen. Hanns Rauter. In the following week the SS execute 263 Dutch in retaliation. The Dutch Resistance had been giving the Germans more and more problems as the war went on. This was the last straw. Rauter lived but hundreds of Dutch and Dutch Jews suffered the consequences. Rauter would later be tried in Nuremburg in 1949 and was executed for war crimes.

March 5

On March 5, 1953 Joseph Stalin dies. Stalin had ruled Russia with an iron fist all through the second world war. He was born in Georgia with the name Isoeb Dzhugashvili,  to a drunk that beat him and a pious washerwoman. Stalin began studying Karl Marx and extreme left wing politics secretly while in seminary school. He was eventually expelled for his political beliefs.

March 4

On March 4, 1941 the British launch Operation Claymore which was the attempt to capture the Enigma decoding machine. the Operation in Norway proved to be very destructive, yet it was a failure.The Enigma was never retrieved.

A British ship off the coast of Norway during Operation Claymore.

The U.S. Eighth Air Force bombing Berlin.

Berlin after the Eighth Air Force's bombing raid.

Also in 1944 the U.S. Eighth Air Force launches a the first American bombing raid on the German capital, Berlin.

March 3

On March 3, 1945 Finland declares war on  Germany and joins the Allies. Finland was under increasing pressure from the United States and the Soviet Union to join them. Also Germany had attacked Finland several times but was fought off by the famous skiing soldiers.

March 2

On March 2,1943 Australian land based planes launched an offensive against the Japanese on the Bismark Sea, in the Western Pacific.

March 1

On March 1, 1941 Bulgaria joins the Axis powers by signing the Tripartite Pact.This alliance with Germany caused the Soviet Union to target Bulgaria, which after the war agreed to be pro-Soviet.