What happened in 1944 during World War 2?

Answer 1

1944 can be attributed as the most bitter year of the war:

Auschwitz and other death and concentration camps continue to kill Jews, Gypsies, Russians, Slavs, political dissidents in massive numbers.

The Western allies have a Hard fight in Italy.

The Russians destroy many German divisions in their spring offensive and advance to the borders of Poland.

The western allies invade Northern France and liberate most of it by the end of 1944.

Hitler is almost killed on 20th July in a bomb plot orchestrated by some members of the wehrmacht. Nearly all the conspirators are hanged or shot.

Massive air attacks on German Cities, industrial sites, weapons factories, food stores, roads, railways, shipping, oil refineries and airfields by the RAF and USAAF, breaking down the German war economy.

The allies continue to make progress in the east, hopping from Island to island in the pacific.

The Germans launch an attack to split the western allies in two and to take the port of Antwerp is launched by the end of the year, it fails.