Today 22 April 2015. On this day in military history:
In 1941:
Stalin on the table lay the message to agents that the representative of the headquarters in Romania Baron Rammingen in a confidential conversation said, in Romania, widely used in military preparations for war with the Soviet Union, on Romanian-Soviet border is concentrated a large number of German troops.
The acting German Ambassador in Moscow was summoned to the Commissariat of foreign Affairs and handed him a note with the official protest by about 80 per cent of German aircraft, took place in the period between 27 March and 18 April, detailing each case. The border troops were given the order, mentioned in the note, "not to open fire on German planes flying over Soviet territory, while these flights are not frequent". The flights became more frequent, and then to the border left a Directive with a categorical prohibition to open fire on violators.
In 1942:
The Jews in the Third Reich is forbidden to use public transport.
The occupation authorities in Belgium have imposed forced labour.
In 1943:
200 Soviet planes made a RAID on the town of Insterburg in East Germany.
On the 22nd of April on all fronts has not happened, according to the summary of the Soviet information Bureau.
In the Kuban held the mobilization of women volunteers in a sniper company. Created sniper squad (45 people) of the girls-say for 4-th guards Kuban Cossack cavalry corps.
In 1944:
On the night of April 22, our air force long-range bombing kanapienio plants in the region of Kohtla-järve and sillamäe.
American forces, supported by carrier-based aircraft landed in Holland on the Western part of the island of New Guinea, which was for the Japanese a surprise. As a result the Americans after 6 days of fighting surrounded and paralyzed the whole Japanese army lost only 100 men killed and a thousand wounded.
In 1945:
On the Dresden direction our troops took the 10 cities and from 17 to 21 April captured more than 10 thousand soldiers and officers. At the Berlin direction our troops took 5 cities and some suburban districts of Berlin and captured more than 13 thousand German soldiers and officers. Within a few days our air force constantly bombed and artillery shelled the city. The North-Eastern part of the city shrouded in the smoke of fires.
Soviet forces liberated the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Potsdam.
Recently published Hitler's orders: "Remember, anyone who promotes or even endorses orders that weaken our vitality, is a traitor! He immediately be shot or hanged. This is valid also in the case when it comes to orders, supposedly coming from the Gauleiter, the Minister Dr. Goebbels or even on behalf of the Fuhrer. Adolf Hitler".
Almost the entire issue of "Truth" devoted to the 75 anniversary since the birth of Lenin, but rather, it was like the jubilee health center in honor of a completely different person. Chief editor of the newspaper Pyotr Pospelov in the article "all-Conquering strength of the ideas of the party of Lenin-Stalin" wrote: "half a Century ago in Russia was founded in St. Petersburg "Union of struggle for the emancipation of the working class". And in the same year, a young fifteen-year young man comes into the revolutionary movement the great comrade Lenin, comrade Stalin...Under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin won the October insurrection".