Europe’s gypsies were also targeted by the Nazis for total destruction. In the Porrajmos (‘The Devouring’) over 200,000 Roma and Sinti (Gypsy) were murdered or died as a result of starvation or disease. Of the 23,000 Roma and Sinti sent to Auschwitz by the Nazis some 21,000 died or were murdered in the gas chambers and on 2nd August 1944 - when the Gypsy Camp at Auschwitz was liquidated - 2,897 were exterminated in the gas chambers. (From 'The Porrajmos'.)
On 2nd August American forces in Normandy liberate Villedieu-les-Poêles between Vire and Avranches when the Germans withdraw.
3rd August 1944 – Chinese and American forces under General Joseph Stillwell capture the strategic town of Myitkina in North East Burma (now Myanmar) from the Japanese.
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