Jump on our Virtual Newsstand as we journey back to 1945. See and read the comic books on sale month by month, and find out the major news of the day.

January: Soviets arrest Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg as a suspected spy. He saved tens of thousands of Jewish lives.

February: Allied leaders Roosevelt, Churchill & Stalin meet in the Livadia Palace near Yalta to discuss the future of post-war Europe.

March: Anne Frank dies of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. She will become the most famous Holocaust victim.

April: Adolf Hitler & Eva Braun, commit suicide in a bunker in Berlin. Their bodies are carried outside, doused in petrol & set alight.

May: The Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany ending the Third Reich & the war in Europe.

June: Aris Velouchiotis, leader of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS), the major resistance in Nazi occupied Greece dies.

July: In a test codenamed Trinity, U.S. Army detonates the first nuclear device in the Jornada del Muerto desert, New Mexico.

August: Enola Gay drops an atomic bomb 'Little Boy', on Hiroshima, Japan. Approximately 75,000 are killed in less than a second.

September: Japan's surrender is accepted by the Supreme Allied Commander, General MacArthur on board USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

October: Pierre Laval, former premier of Vichy France, is executed. He had permitted deportation of Jews to Nazi death camps.

November: The Nuremberg Trials begin at the Palace of Justice. The most important of these is the trial of Third Reich leaders.

December: General George Patton dies after an automobile accident. The colorful character inspired his troops & was feared by the Nazis.