Curated playlist
August 1944 in Europe
- Operation OverlordStorms nearly stopped the D-Day invasion of Normandy before it began.
- Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensiveMoscow wanted Finland's army destroyed and Finland out of the war. Neither goal was fully met in the 1944 offensive.
- Falaise pocketPilots flying over the Falaise pocket smelled the carnage from hundreds of feet up.
- Operation DragoonOn August 15, 1944, 1,300 Allied bombers hit Provence to open the invasion of southern France.
- Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacreItaly convicted ten former SS men for the Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre, but Germany refused to extradite them.
- 1944 Romanian coup d'étatIn August 1944, Romania's king had his prime minister arrested at the palace. Romania then switched sides overnight.
- Warsaw UprisingThe Warsaw Uprising began at 17:00 on the 1st of August 1944. It lasted 63 days against German occupation.
- Liberation of ParisThe first troops to break into central Paris in August 1944 were mostly Spanish Republicans.
- Slovak National UprisingSlovakia's own army turned on Germany in 1944. The Slovak National Uprising began inside a Nazi client state.
- Operation BagrationOperation Bagration began exactly three years after Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
- Second Jassy–Kishinev offensiveIn August 1944, a Soviet attack collapsed the German-Romanian front in Romania within two days.