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Art and culture
- The end of World War II and the public disclosure of the Holocaust atrocities
- Paragraph 175: when concentration camps were liberated, gays were not freed but made to serve out their sentence under Paragraph 175
- Adolf Hitler committs suicide as Russian shells exploded in the Chancellery garden above. It was twelve years and three months since he had become dictator of Germany.
- Vannevar Bush foresees the invention of hypertext
Books
- La Môme Vert-de-Gris by Peter Cheyney, first title in the Série Noire
- Naked City, a 1945 book collection of photographs, by the American photographer Weegee.
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
Film
- Mom and Dad by William Beaudine
- Open City by Roberto Rossellini
Births
- Greil Marcus, American music journalist and cultural critic
- Jorge Ben Jor, Brazilian musician
Deaths
- March 20 – Lord Alfred Douglas, English poet (b. 1870)
- April 22 – Käthe Kollwitz, German artist (b. 1867)
- April 28 - Benito Mussolini, Italian Fascist dictator (executed) (b. 1883)
- April 30 - Adolf Hitler, German Nazi dictator (suicide) (b. 1889)
- June 8 – Robert Desnos, French poet and resistance fighter (b. 1900)
- July 20 – Paul Valéry, French poet (b. 1871)
- August 26 – Franz Werfel, Austrian writer (b. 1890)
- September 15 – Anton Webern, Austrian composer (b. 1883)
- December 28 – Theodore Dreiser, American author (b. 1871)
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