World War II Diaries:The Complete War Report
1944 August
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Under Hitler's instructions, Heinrich Himmler orders that all family members of Von Stauffenberg be persecuted. His wife Nina, a few months pregnant, is arrested by security forces and sent to prison and then to the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp. Their four children are sent to an internment camp. In Warsaw, Polish and German forces continue to violently clash. SS reinforcement troops begin to the arrive in the city, under General von dem Bach Zelewski of the Kaminski Brigade, composed of Soviet POWs, along with the Dirlewanger Brigade, made up of former German prisoners. Japanese forces in China keep the up various offensives of Operation Ichi-Go against the National Revolutionary Army. After the Battle of Central Henan, they are now involved in the Battle of Changheng in Hunan Province. For the Japanese, the two main objectives in this long and costly operation are to open a land route to French Indochina, and occupy air bases in Chinese territory.