1945
Benjamin O. Davis Jr., is named Commander of Godman Field in Kentucky.
1945
The first state Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) is established in New York as a result of the Ives-Quinn Bill.
1945
U.S. Congress denies funds to federal FEPC established during the war to enforce fair employment policies. Ralph Bunche becomes a division head in the State Department.
1945
Black U.S. troops are in the forefront of victorious assaults in Germany and Northern Italy. However, the use of black troops in World War II was more confined and beset by prejudice than in World War I or the
Spanish-American War. Despite efforts by some enlightened Naval officers, over 90% of blacks in the Navy are still messmen when the war ends.
1945
Karl Maria Weisthor (Wiligut) is evicted from his SS
guest-house on the Worthersee in Austria by British troops and assigned to an
Allied refugee camp at St. Johann near Velden. While there, the 78-year-old
Weisthor suffers a stroke which results in partial paralysis and loss of speech.
Weisthor, a former SS Brigadier, and his SS housekeeper are released by the
British and allowed to return to his old family home in Salzburg (Mund; Roots)
1945
General Patton is appointed military governor of the State of
Bavaria. Patton's outspoken opposition to the official policy of denazification
forces his superiors to later relieve him of any real responsibility.
1945
The U.S. Treasury Department accuses Allen Dulles of laundering money from the Nazi Bank of Hungary into Switzerland. The Charges are later dropped by the U.S. State Department.
1945 January
The U.S. black 969th Field Artillery Battalion is cited for conspicuous courage in support of the defense of Bastogne in Belgium.
1945 January 1
The Soviets set up a Soviet-dominated government (the Lublin Committee) in Poland, meeting with little effective resistance.
1945 January 1
The Luftwaffe attacks airfields in Belgium, Holland and France destroying more than 300 Allied aircraft. It is the last major Luftwaffe action of the war.
1945 January 1
German Army Group G in Alsace begins an offensive in the Sarreguemines area and Eisenhower orders units of the U.S. Seventh Army to
retreat.
1945 January 1
Hungarian-Jewish leader, Otto Komoly, is murdered by Hungarian fascists.
1945 January 2
The U.S. Third Army in the Ardennes takes Bonnerue, Hubertmont and Remagne.
1945 January 2
Hitler turns down requests from Generals Model and Manteuffel to withdraw from west of Houffalize.
1945 January 2
Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, Naval Commander-in-Chief of Allied forces in Europe, is killed in an air accident on his way to meet with General Montgomery.
1945 January 2
In Budapest, the surrounded German garrison goes on the offensive, counterattacking the Soviets.
1945 January 3
Desperate German attacks in the Ardennes fail to cut the Allied corridor to Bastogne.
1945 January 3
German attacks in Alsace continue to force the US Seventh Army to retreat.
1945 January 3
The Dutch and Belgian governments sign a mutual agreement for repatriation of incarcerated civilians.
1945 January 4
Units of Sepp Dietrich's Sixth SS Panzer Army are withdrawn from the Ardennes and transferred to the Eastern Front.
1945 January 4
German attacks in Alsace continue near Bitche.
1945 January 5
The Soviets recognize the Lublin Committee as the Provisional Government of Poland, while the U.S. and Britain continue to publicly recognize the exile government in London.
1945 January 5
Fighting between the British and Greek Communists come to an end in Athens.
1945 January 5
5,000 Jews "protected" by Swedish papers are driven from their so-called "neutal houses" into Budapest's central ghetto
