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  • Brünnlitz, Czech Republic
    Jul, 1944
    Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)

    Brünnlitz

    Brünnlitz, Czech Republic
    Jul, 1944

    As the Red Army drew nearer in July 1944, the SS began closing down the easternmost concentration camps and evacuating the remaining prisoners westward to Auschwitz and Gross-Rosen concentration camp. Göth's personal secretary, Mietek Pemper, alerted Schindler to the Nazis' plans to close all factories not directly involved in the war effort, including Schindler's enamelware facility. Pamper suggested to Schindler that production should be switched from cookware to anti-tank grenades in an effort to save the lives of the Jewish workers. Using bribery and his powers of persuasion, Schindler convinced Göth and the officials in Berlin to allow him to move his factory and his workers to Brünnlitz (Czech: Brněnec), in the Sudetenland, thus sparing them from certain death in the gas chambers. Using names provided by Jewish Ghetto Police officer Marcel Goldberg, Pemper compiled and typed the list of 1,200 Jews—1,000 of Schindler's workers and 200 inmates from Julius Madritsch's textiles factory—who were sent to Brünnlitz in October 1944.




  • Mount Washington Hotel, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, United States
    Saturday Jul 1, 1944
    International Monetary Fund

    Bretton Woods Conference

    Mount Washington Hotel, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, United States
    Saturday Jul 1, 1944

    The IMF was originally laid out as a part of the Bretton Woods system exchange agreement in 1944. During the Great Depression, countries sharply raised barriers to trade in an attempt to improve their failing economies. This led to the devaluation of national currencies and a decline in world trade. This breakdown in international monetary cooperation created a need for oversight. The representatives of 45 governments met at the Bretton Woods Conference in the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in the United States, to discuss a framework for postwar international economic cooperation and how to rebuild Europe.




  • New Hampshire, United States
    Saturday Jul 1, 1944
    Bretton Woods Conference

    Bretton Woods Conference

    New Hampshire, United States
    Saturday Jul 1, 1944

    The conference was held from July 1 to 22, 1944. Agreements were signed that, after legislative ratification by member governments, established the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).




  • New Hampshire, United States
    Saturday Jul 1, 1944
    World Bank

    Bretton Woods conference

    New Hampshire, United States
    Saturday Jul 1, 1944

    Early in the Second World War, John Maynard Keynes of the British Treasury and Harry Dexter White of the United States Treasury Department independently began to develop ideas about the financial order of the postwar world. (See below on Keynes's proposal for an International Clearing Union.) After negotiation between officials of the United States and United Kingdom, and consultation with some other Allies, a "Joint Statement by Experts on the Establishment of an International Monetary Fund," was published simultaneously in a number of Allied countries on April 21, 1944. On May 25, 1944, the U.S. government invited the Allied countries to send representatives to an international monetary conference, "for the purpose of formulating definite proposals for an International Monetary Fund and possibly a Bank for Reconstruction and Development." (The word "International" was only added to the Bank's title late in the Bretton Woods Conference.) The United States also invited a smaller group of countries to send experts to a preliminary conference in Atlantic City, New Jersey, to develop draft proposals for the Bretton Woods conference. The Atlantic City conference was held from June 15–30, 1944.




  • Imphal, Manipur, India
    Monday Jul 3, 1944
    World War II

    Japanese left Imphal

    Imphal, Manipur, India
    Monday Jul 3, 1944

    The Battle of Imphal took place in the region around the city of Imphal, the capital of the state of Manipur in northeast India from 8 March until 3 July 1944. Japanese armies attempted to destroy the Allied forces at Imphal and invade India, but were driven back into Burma with heavy losses.




  • London, England, United Kingdom
    Tuesday Jul 4, 1944
    Charles de Gaulle

    De Gaulle arrival at RAF Northolt

    London, England, United Kingdom
    Tuesday Jul 4, 1944

    Upon his arrival at RAF Northolt on 4 June 1944 he received an official welcome, and a letter reading "My dear general! Welcome to these shores, very great military events are about to take place!.




  • Western Ukraine and Eastern Poland
    Thursday Jul 13, 1944
    World War II

    Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive

    Western Ukraine and Eastern Poland
    Thursday Jul 13, 1944

    The Red Army attacked the German forces in Ukraine and Eastern Poland. The operations started on 13 July 1944, and lasted for 47 days.


  • Normandy, France
    Sunday Jul 16, 1944
    World War II

    Invasion of Normandy

    Normandy, France
    Sunday Jul 16, 1944

    The Allies invaded northern France, which lasted from the D-Day to Mid-July 1944. As Result, Germans retreated eastwards to Paris.


  • Italy
    Monday Jul 17, 1944
    Benito Mussolini

    Massacre in Florence

    Italy
    Monday Jul 17, 1944

    The Banda Carità, a special unit constituted within the 92nd Legion Blackshirts, operated in Tuscany and Veneto. It became infamous for violent repressions, such as the 1944 Piazza Tasso massacre in Florence.


  • New Hampshire, United States
    Wednesday Jul 19, 1944
    Bretton Woods Conference

    The main goal of the conference

    New Hampshire, United States
    Wednesday Jul 19, 1944

    The main goal of the conference was to achieve an agreement on the IMF. Enough consensus existed that the conference was also able to achieve an agreement on the IBRD. Doing so required extending the conference from its original closing date of July 19, 1944 to July 22.


  • Rastenburg, Germany (Now Poland)
    Thursday Jul 20, 1944
    Adolf Hitler

    20 July plot assassination attempt

    Rastenburg, Germany (Now Poland)
    Thursday Jul 20, 1944

    Between 1939 and 1945, there were many plans to assassinate Hitler, some of which proceeded to significant degrees. The most well known, the 20 July plot of 1944, came from within Germany and was at least partly driven by the increasing prospect of a German defeat in the war.


  • Berlin, Germany
    Jul, 1944
    Joseph Goebbels

    Goebbels continued to press Hitler to bring the economy to a total war footing

    Berlin, Germany
    Jul, 1944

    Goebbels and Speer continued to press Hitler to bring the economy to a total war footing.


  • China
    Saturday Jul 22, 1944
    Mao Zedong

    The Dixie Mission

    China
    Saturday Jul 22, 1944

    In 1944, the Americans sent a special diplomatic envoy, called the Dixie Mission, to the Communist Party of China.


  • Japan
    Saturday Jul 22, 1944
    World War II

    Hideki Tojo resignation

    Japan
    Saturday Jul 22, 1944

    The Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo has resigned on 22 July 1944.


  • Germany
    Sunday Jul 23, 1944
    Joseph Goebbels

    Goebbels appointed as Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War

    Germany
    Sunday Jul 23, 1944

    Goebbels was appointed on 23 July as Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War, charged with maximizing the manpower for the Wehrmacht and the armaments industry at the expense of sectors of the economy not critical to the war effort.


  • Lublin, Poland
    Tuesday Jul 25, 1944
    The Holocaust

    Majdanek encountered by Allied troops

    Lublin, Poland
    Tuesday Jul 25, 1944

    The first major camp to be encountered by Allied troops, Majdanek, was discovered by the advancing Soviets, along with its gas chambers, on 25 July 1944.


  • Rome, Italy
    Tuesday Jul 25, 1944
    Winston Churchill

    King Victor Emmanuel sacked Mussolini

    Rome, Italy
    Tuesday Jul 25, 1944

    King Victor Emmanuel sacked Mussolini on 25 July and appointed Marshal Badoglio as Prime Minister. Badoglio opened negotiations with the Allies which resulted in the Armistice of Cassibile on 3 September.


  • Poland
    Wednesday Jul 26, 1944
    World War II

    Polish Committee of National Liberation

    Poland
    Wednesday Jul 26, 1944

    The Soviets formed the Polish Committee of National Liberation to control territory in Poland and combat the Polish Armia Krajowa.


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