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February 6 - French writer Robert Brasillach executed for collaboration with the Germans

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April 28 - Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are executed by Italian partisans. Their bodies are then hung

by their heels in the public square of Milan.

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April 30 - Adolf Hitler and his wife of one day, Eva Braun, commits suicide as Red Army approaches Führerbunker in Berlin.

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May 2: The Red Army hoists the Flag of the Soviet Union over the ruins of the Reichstag building.

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May 5 - Ezra Pound, poet and author, is arrested by American soldiers in Italy for treason.

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August 6 - The United States detonates an atomic bomb nicknamed “Little Boy” on Hiroshima, Japan at 8:16 AM

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December 21 - General George S. Patton dies from injuries sustained in a car accident on December 9.

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Inspiration in numbers.