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Germany invaded Poland without warning sparking the start of World War Two
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Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies announced the beginning of Australia's involvement in the Second World War on every national and commercial radio station in Australia.
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In one of the greatest "trading with the enemy" scandals of the war, U.S. Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold announces that William Stamps Farish Sr. has pled "no contest" to charges of criminal conspiracy with the Nazis.
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Under the new tactical doctrine of area saturation bombing, introduced by Air Vice Marshal Harris, the RAF launches a heavy incendiary attack (234 bombers) against Lübeck on the Baltic that devastates 265 acres of the old city.
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Churchill tells the conservatives, ‘It now seems very likely that we and our allies cannot lose this war, except through our own fault’.
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The start of deportation of French Jews to Auschwitz. The Filipino Government arrives in Australia.
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the German High Command authorised the signing of an unconditional surrender on all fronts: the war in Europe was over.
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The surrender was to take effect at midnight on 8–9 May 1945
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Japan accepted of the Allied demand for unconditional surrender.