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  • India
    Friday May 5, 1944
    Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

    Gandhi's release

    India
    Friday May 5, 1944

    Gandhi was released before the end of the war on 6 May 1944 because of his failing health and necessary surgery; the Raj did not want him to die in prison and enrage the nation. He came out of detention to an altered political scene – the Muslim League for example, which a few years earlier had appeared marginal, "now occupied the centre of the political stage".




  • Poland
    May, 1944
    The Holocaust

    Jews were deported from Hungary to Auschwitz II-Birkenau

    Poland
    May, 1944

    Between 15 May and 9 July, 437,000 Jews were deported from Hungary to Auschwitz II-Birkenau, almost all sent directly to the gas chambers.




  • Hungary
    May, 1944
    The Holocaust

    Jews were deported from Hungary

    Hungary
    May, 1944

    Between 15 May and early July 1944, 437,000 Jews were deported from Hungary, mostly to Auschwitz, where most of them were gassed; there were four transports a day, each carrying 3,000 people.




  • Bosnia and Herzegovina (Yugoslavia)
    Thursday May 25, 1944
    Josip Broz Tito

    Operation Rösselsprung

    Bosnia and Herzegovina (Yugoslavia)
    Thursday May 25, 1944

    On 25 May 1944, he managed to evade the Germans after the Raid on Drvar (Operation Rösselsprung), an airborne assault outside his Drvar headquarters in Bosnia.




  • Washington D.C., U.S.
    Thursday May 25, 1944
    Bretton Woods Conference

    The U.S. government invited the Allied countries to send representatives to an international monetary conference

    Washington D.C., U.S.
    Thursday May 25, 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".




  • Changsha and Hengyang, China
    May, 1944
    World War II

    Battle of Changsha (1944)

    Changsha and Hengyang, China
    May, 1944

    By June, the Japanese begun a new attack on Changsha in Hunan province. The Battle of Changsha (1944) was a Japanese invasion of the Chinese province of Hunan. The invasion lasted from May to August 1944.




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