Today 29 APRIL 2015. On this day in the war years:
in 1941:
To Ministro of foreign Affairs of Germany Ribbentrop, arrived a courier with the report of Shulenberga about a conversation with Hitler on 28 April. On the same day or the next Hitler summoned Ribbentrop Pact, and the one trying to persuade the führer, again started talking about the catastrophe that will end the war with Russia. Hitler firmly cut him off, demanded "unconditional support" and warned: "no More moves", forbidding to talk about the coming war with anyone. The Ribbentrop had only to obey.
The German envoy in Moscow von Tippelskirch left to replace those who left to Berlin the Ambassador Schulenburg, also an opponent of war with Russia, wrote to Berlin that the Russians strongly demonstrate a good attitude to Germany and its allies.
in 1942:
After several days of fierce fighting, German troops destroyed the Nevsky bridgehead (Nevsky "patch") on the left Bank of the Neva, in the Neva area, Dubravka, troops of the Leningrad front kept since the beginning of the blockade.
The Japanese landed additional troops on the Philippine island of Mindanao to 3 may have forced the allied troops to retreat to the mountains.
Deputy Chairman of the Council of people's Commissars and people's Commissar of the chemical industry M. G. Pervukhin on the order of Stalin received a thick dossier with the materials of the NKVD and military intelligence on the work on the atomic bomb abroad. Pervukhin suggested to show the materials physicists who will be able to assess their importance. Physics assessed, and at the end of 1942 the State defense Committee adopted a decree establishing the Academy of Sciences laboratory for the creation of the atomic bomb.
in 1943:
Soviet submarine s-55 sunk in the Barents sea off Norway the German transport "Leesee", "Sturtze" and mail ship.
in 1944:
On all fronts on April 29, our troops disabled and destroyed 37 German tanks. In air battles or by anti-aircraft fire shot down 50 enemy planes.
The black sea fleet ships in the night discovered two groups of enemy ships in the area of Sevastopol. As a result of the shocks our ships sunk three enemy transport with a gross tonnage of 11 000 tonnes. In addition, sunk one gunboat and damaged other ships of the escort. South-East of the city Stanislav parts N-ski connection repulsed several attacks tanks and infantry of the enemy. In this battle, the battalion destroyed up to the Nazis and 6 German tanks. The anti-tank Rifleman of Kigali Auhadiev during the day, knocked out two German tanks. The crew of trooper Ivan Firsov under enemy fire went into the flank of the Germans. At a time when the Germans went on the attack our gunners hit them in the rear. The attack was thwarted. On the battlefield there were 120 of enemy corpses.
in 1945:
Troops of the 1st Belorussian waged street battles in Berlin and captured the city district of Moabit, the Anhalt station. Troops of the 1st Ukrainian front waged street battles in the South-West of Berlin and came to Berlinerstrasse. The 79th rifle corps of the 3rd shock army of the 1st Belorussian front began the battle for the Reichstag.
The failed attempt of the 12th German army General's Wreath to break the blockade of Berlin.
Troops of the 2nd Belorussian front captured the towns of Anklam, Sclerosis and entered the territory of the province of Mecklenburg.
The allied troops are located in 28 kilometers from Munich. In the sector of the Maritime Alps, they came to the Italian border on a stretch of 80 kilometers.
In the Dachau concentration camp near Munich there occurred an uprising of prisoners. Rescue the allied troops slaughtered the guards and freed the surviving prisoners, including former chief of General staff of German land forces, Colonel-General Franz Halder and General Alexander von Falkenhausen arrested in 1944 for alleged participation in the conspiracy against Hitler.
Representatives of the German command signed the act of unconditional surrender of German forces in Northern Italy (came into force on 2 may).
The Soviet government announced the recognition of the provisional government of Austria led by Karl Renner.
