25 Jan 1945
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Burma
- Anglo-Indian and Japanese troops clashed at Kabwet, Burma. ww2dbase [Battle of Meiktila-Mandalay | Kabwet | CPC]
- Denise Bloch was executed at Ravensbrück Concentration Camp, Germany some time between this date and 5 Feb 1945. ww2dbase [Denise Bloch | Ravensbrück, Mark Brandenburg | CPC]
- Germany announced the biggest evacuation in military history when the first of what would grow to be up to two million troops were withdrawn by ship through the Baltic from Preußen (Prussia) and Pommern (Pomerania). The evacuation continued until the end of the European War. ww2dbase [East Prussian Offensive | AC]
- Denise Bloch was executed at Ravensbrück Concentration Camp, Germany some time between this date and 5 Feb 1945. ww2dbase [Ravensbrück Concentration Camp | Ravensbrück, Mark Brandenburg | CPC]
- Heinz Guderian asked Joachim von Ribbentrop to negotiate peace with the Western Allies. Ribbentrop reported this to Adolf Hitler. ww2dbase [Heinz Guderian | CPC]
- USS Hackleback arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | CPC]
- USS Sterlet departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii for her third war patrol. ww2dbase [Sterlet | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
- USS Hackleback arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Hackleback | Pearl Harbor, Oahu | CPC]
- USS Pollack departed Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. ww2dbase [Pollack | Pearl Harbor Navy Base and Ford Island Naval Air Station | Honolulu, Oahu | CPC]
- Landing ship No. 147 was completed. ww2dbase [No. 101/103-class | CPC]
- USS Luce departed San Pedro Bay, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Luce | San Pedro Bay | CPC]
- Douglas MacArthur moved his advance headquarters forward to the Hacienda Luisita plantation, Tarlac, Philippine Islands. ww2dbase [Douglas MacArthur | Hacienda Luisita, Tarlac | CPC]
- Posen, Germany (now Poznan, Poland) was declared a Fortress City after it was surrounded and left to wither by Soviet forces. ww2dbase [Vistula-Oder Offensive | Poznan | TH]
- Raoul Wallenberg was interrogated at the OKR of Soviet 18th Rifle Corps in Russia. ww2dbase [Raoul Wallenberg | CPC]




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