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February 2, 1945

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ZHUKOFF AT ODER; RED ARMY REDUCES STRONGPOINTS AND SWEEPS ON

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battle for Koenigsberg intensified; Moscow repts flaming city-area encirclement; Berlin claims to have repulsed USSR grip; repts Russians in city northern suburbs; other units split Ger forces in Samland Peninsula; take Pojerstieten; Seeburg taken; USSR units reptd in Elbing, E Prussia; Ger attempts to evacuate prov repulsed; map

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Rangers Pierce Foe's Lines, Rescue 513, Many of Bataan; U.S. Soldiers and Filipino Guerrillas Thrust 25 Miles to Prison in East Luzon, Fight Way Back, Kill 532 Japanese RANGERS FREE 513, MANY OF BATAAN Every Rescuer Decorated Flag Preserved on Luzon

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US Rangers and Filipino guerrillas rescue 513 prisoners, mostly US Bataan death march and Corregidor survivors, from Cabanatuan prison camp near Cabu, Luzon; freed prisoners moved to 92d Evacuation Hosp

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Notable Births

John Eatwell, Baron Eatwell

1945John Eatwell, Baron Eatwell, English economist and academic[†]

John Leonard Eatwell, Baron Eatwell, is a British economist who was President of Queens' College, Cambridge, from 1996 to 2020. A former senior advisor to the Labour Party, Lord Eatwell sat in the House of Lords as a non-affiliated peer from 2014 to 2020, before returning to the Labour bench.

Notable Deaths

Alfred Delp

1945Alfred Delp, German priest and philosopher (born 1907)[†]

Alfred Friedrich Delp was a German Jesuit priest and philosopher of the German Resistance. A member of the inner Kreisau Circle resistance group, he is considered a significant figure in Catholic resistance to Nazism. Falsely implicated in the failed 1944 July Plot to overthrow Adolf Hitler, Delp was arrested and sentenced to death. He was executed in 1945.

Carl Friedrich Goerdeler

1945Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, German economist and politician (born 1884)[†]

Carl Friedrich Goerdeler was a German conservative politician, monarchist, executive, economist, civil servant and opponent of the Nazi regime. He opposed anti-Jewish policies while he held office and was opposed to the Holocaust.

Johannes Popitz

1945Johannes Popitz, German lawyer and politician (born 1884)[†]

Hermann Eduard Johannes Popitz was a Prussian lawyer, finance minister and a member of the German Resistance against the government of Nazi Germany. He was the father of Heinrich Popitz, an important German sociologist.