September 1944

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The following events occurred in September 1944:

September 1, 1944 (Friday)[edit]

September 2, 1944 (Saturday)[edit]

September 3, 1944 (Sunday)[edit]

September 4, 1944 (Monday)[edit]

September 5, 1944 (Tuesday)[edit]

September 6, 1944 (Wednesday)[edit]

September 7, 1944 (Thursday)[edit]

September 8, 1944 (Friday)[edit]

September 9, 1944 (Saturday)[edit]

September 10, 1944 (Sunday)[edit]

September 11, 1944 (Monday)[edit]

  • Elements of the First Canadian Army reached the Belgian coastal village of Zeebrugge.[15]
  • Communist leader Bolesław Bierut assumed the presidency of a new provisional government of Poland.[1]
  • German submarine U-19 was scuttled in the Black Sea.
  • US troops crossed the border into Nazi Germany for the first time. At 16:30 hours, a 7-person patrol led by Sgt. Warner W. Holzinger of the 2nd Platoon, Troop B, 85th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, 5th Armored Division, crossed the river Our at Stolzembourg, Luxembourg and reached Keppeshausen. They studied the pillbox area, and returned safely to Stolzembourg at 18:50 having encountered no German military personnel. This was also the first advance through enemy lines in Germany.[16][17]

September 12, 1944 (Tuesday)[edit]

September 13, 1944 (Wednesday)[edit]

September 14, 1944 (Thursday)[edit]

September 15, 1944 (Friday)[edit]

September 16, 1944 (Saturday)[edit]

  • The Soviet 3rd Ukrainian Front occupied the Bulgarian capital of Sofia.[23]
  • The Second Quebec Conference ended.
  • In accordance with a call from the Danish National Council in London (not actually a government in exile but an association of free Danes), workers in Denmark went on strike starting at noon to protest the transfer of about 190 Danish political prisoners to Germany. The strike mostly affected the transportation system.[24]
  • Hitler made the decision to go through with the Ardennes Offensive in his Prussian headquarters (the Wolf's Lair). This would become the Battle of the Bulge.
  • Died: Gustav Bauer, 74, Chancellor of Germany from 1919 to 1920

September 17, 1944 (Sunday)[edit]

September 18, 1944 (Monday)[edit]

September 19, 1944 (Tuesday)[edit]

September 20, 1944 (Wednesday)[edit]

September 21, 1944 (Thursday)[edit]

September 22, 1944 (Friday)[edit]

September 23, 1944 (Saturday)[edit]

  • The Soviet Army crossed into Hungarian territory.[13]
  • An RAF bombing raid destroyed an aqueduct on the Dortmund-Ems Canal and brought a halt to the shipment of prefabricated U-boat parts via this route.[32]
  • German submarine U-859 was torpedoed and sunk in the Strait of Malacca by British submarine Trenchant.
  • U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt made a campaign speech in Washington before the International Teamsters Brotherhood. He responded to a rumor that he'd sent a Navy destroyer to the Aleutian Islands to retrieve his Scottish Terrier Fala at great taxpayer expense by saying, "You know, Fala is Scotch, and being a Scottie, as soon as he learned that the Republican fiction writers in Congress and out had concocted a story that I had left him behind on the Aleutian Islands and had sent a destroyer back to find him— at a cost to the taxpayers of two or three, or eight or twenty million dollars- his Scotch soul was furious. He has not been the same dog since. I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself—such as that old, worm-eaten chestnut that I have represented myself as indispensable. But I think I have a right to resent, to object to libelous statements about my dog." Roosevelt drew huge laughs from the audience and the speech became a defining moment in the campaign.[33][34]
  • Died: Harry Chandler, 80, American newspaper publisher and real estate mogul

September 24, 1944 (Sunday)[edit]

September 25, 1944 (Monday)[edit]

September 26, 1944 (Tuesday)[edit]

September 27, 1944 (Wednesday)[edit]

September 28, 1944 (Thursday)[edit]

  • Soviet, Yugoslav Partisan and Bulgarian forces began the Belgrade Offensive.
  • Winston Churchill made a speech in the House of Commons reviewing the progress of the war and announcing that a Jewish brigade would be formed to take part in active operations. "I know there is a vast number of Jews serving with our forces and the American forces throughout all the armies, but it seems to me indeed appropriate that a special Jewish unit of that race which has suffered indescribable torment from the Nazis should be represented as a distinct formation among the forces gathered for their final overthrow," Churchill explained. "I have no doubt that they will not only take part in the struggle but also in the occupation which will follow."[39]
  • A roundup in Bratislava orchestrated by Alois Brunner captures 1,800 Jews and puts an end to one of the most successful underground Jewish organizations during the Holocaust, the Bratislava Working Group. The Jews are deported to Auschwitz, where most are murdered.
  • Died: Josef Bürckel, 49, German Nazi politician (apparent complications from exhaustion)

September 29, 1944 (Friday)[edit]

September 30, 1944 (Saturday)[edit]

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