World War II Diaries:The Complete War Report
1944 October
E62 Apr 8, 2018
Hitler orders that all women born in 1928, in other words, all 16 year-olds are to be mobilized for the war effort. In Washington, the Dumbarton Oaks conference, which started in August, draws to a close. It had gathered representatives from the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the Republic of China. It lays the foundations for the creation of the United Nations, as well as its Security Council, providing its permanent members the right to veto. On the Eastern Front in Europe, four hundred Jews held in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp stage an uprising. Members of a sonderkommando responsible for taking corpses from the gas chambers to the crematoriums desperately attack their guards using explosives stolen from a nearby factory. They manage to destroy one of the crematoriums before SS soldiers kill them all.