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1946

March 1
  • In Budapest, Hungary, former Premier Ferenc Szalasi and six other cabinet ministers are convicted of war crimes, to be hanged March 4. [660.32]
March 2
  • In Budapest, Hungary, former Hungarian Minister of Agriculture during the German occupation Count Fidel Palffy is hanged as a war criminal. [660.32]
March 4
  • At Katowice, Poland, a Polish military court sentences to death five officers of underground National Armed Froces, for organizing efforts to overthrow the Polish Government during late in the war. Eleven others are sentenced to 8-10 years in prison. [661.4]
  • At the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, the prosecution cases finishes, after 73 days. [806.204]
March 7
  • British and American governments jointly announce the total score of enemy submarine kills during the war. Total enemy submarine losses from all causes: 996. Germany lost 781, Italy lost 85, and Japan lost 130. [662.8]
March 8
  • At the Nuremberg trials in Germany, the defence case begins. [806.247]
  • British agents in Germany capture Rudolf Hoess, former commandant of the Oswiecim concentration camp. [670.3] (April 16 [667.31])
March 12
  • In Budapest, Hungary, former Premier Ferenc Szalasi and four former Ministers are hanged as war criminals. [663.13]
  • In Paris, France, the High Court sentences former Vichy Government Minister Jacques Chevalier to twenty years hard labor and national unworthiness for life. [663.12]
March 13
  • British Admiralty reports on British losses on the Murmansk run during the war: 19 British warship sunk, 30 merchant ships sunk, 19 other warships damaged, 8 other merchant ships damaged, 2055 navy men killed, about 525 men of the Merchant Marine killed. [664.3]
  • Yugoslav forces capture former War Minister General Draja Mikhailovitch hiding in a mountain cave, guarded by eleven soldiers. He is accused of collaboration with Nazis. [695.1]
March 14
  • In Singapore, three Japanese soldiers are hanged for war atrocities. [665.6]
  • In Paris, France, the High Court of Justice condemns to death secretaries of Vichy's Ministry of Justice Maurice Gabolde and Georges Dayras. [666.6]
March 15
  • In Transylvania, Rumania, the People's Tribunal of Cluj sentences 43 officers and men of the former Hungarian army to varying penalties for crimes committed during the war: 23 to death, eight to life in prison, six to 25 years, and six to 20 years hard labor. [666.8]
March 16
  • In The Hague, Netherlands, Maximilien Blokzijl is executed by firing squad, for betraying the nation as announcer of Nazi radio system in the Netherlands during the occupation. This is the first execution in the Netherlands since 1854. [667.19]
  • Rudolf Hoess, former commandant of the Oswiecim concentration camp, signs a statement saying that he gassed 2 million persons between June 1941 to end of 1943 under orders from Heinrich Himmler. [670.3]

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March 17
  • Soviet troops begin leaving the Danish Bornholm island. [668.3]
March 18
  • In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, a court sentences to death eight former Nazi police agents for torturing Yugoslav Partisans and patriots. [669.2]
March 19
  • In Budapest, Hungary, three members of Premier Ferenc Szalasy's government of October 1944 are hanged in the jail courtyard: Deputy Prime Minister Eugen Szoelloesi, Foreign Minister Baron Gabriel Kemeny, and Regent Council member Sandor Csia. [670.4]
  • In Paris, France, Marcel Bucard, leader of the French Blue Shirt Fascists, is executed by firing squad. [670.12]
  • In The Hague, Netherland, a court sentences to 18 years in prison Doctor J.H. Carp, president of the German occupation Peace Court. [670.12]
March 20
  • The US Military Government in Berlin announces the capture of Mildred Gillars of Maine. Gillars was known as Axis Sally for her Berlin radio broadcasts to US troops in North Africa and Europe, describing the comforts of home and the folly of war with Germany. [692.15]
March 22
  • In Budapest, Hungary, the People's Court sentences to death by shooting former Premier Field Marshal Doeme Sztojay. Also sentenced to death: deputy Minister Denoe Racz, Finance Minister Lajos Remenyl-Schneller, and Industrial Minister Lajos Szasz. Minister of Commerce Anton Kunder is sentenced to life imprisonment. [694.2]
  • In Yokohama, Japan, US 8th Army tribunal convicts Japanese Major Yaichi Rikitake of eighteen war crime charges. [694.6]
  • In Manila, Philippines, former Japanese soldier Soichi Kobayashi is hanged as war criminal or the murder of Filipino civilians. [694.6]
April 29
  • Poland issues a postage stamp depicting the Majdanek concentration camp, 1941-44. [343.334]
May 2
  • Poland issues a postage stamp marking the Silesian uprisings, 1939-45. [343.334]
May 8
  • Fifteen French colonies issue a common postage stamp celebrating the European victory of Allied Nations. [282.37A]
May 9
  • Poland issues a postage stamp marking the 1st anniversary of the liberation of Poland. [343.273]
May
  • An International War Crimes Tribunal is held in Tokyo, Japan. (This is the longest war crimes trial, lasting 417 days.) [482.14] [528.2056]
May 22
  • Karl Hermann Frank, last Protector of Bohemia, is publicly hanged in Prague. [806.481]
June 6
  • Fifteen French colonies issue six common postage stamps depicting General Jacques Leclerc's column marching from Chad to the Rhine, 1942-1944. [282.37A]
(month unknown)
  • The tripartite gold treaty accepts a total of US$60 million in gold as Switzerland's payment in full of Nazi loot. [214.21]
July
  • (early in month) Toronto, Canada, lawyer Andrew Brewin takes the matter of government policy on deporting Japanese Canadians before the Privy Council in London, England. [7.331]
July 11
  • A war crimes trial convicts Joachim Peiper, Sepp Dietrich, and 71 other former German SS officers and soldiers. Peiper and 42 others are sentenced to death. (Dietrich is paroled in 1955, Peiper in 1956. None are ever executed.) [277.311]
July 21
  • Delegates of 21 nations meet in Paris, France, for a Peace Conference, to attempt to settle on the language of peace treaties with Italy, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, and Finland. (The conference ends in October, having made little progress.) [163.727]
August 9
  • Bulgaria issues eleven postage stamps depicting Bulgaria's participation in the war. [306.964]
August
  • A British court condemns German General Nickolaus von Falkenhorst to death for his part in the execution of captured British commandos. [149.308]
August 31
  • At the Nuremberg Tribunal, defendants make closing statements before the court. Hermann Göring denies all. Joachim von Ribbentrop hopes America and Great Britain are more successful versus Bolshevism. Wilhelm Keitel says his loyalty was exploited for obscure reasons. Albert Speer predicts destruction if technology developments of previous five years exploited in another war. [145.44] [528.2057] [806.441]
September 14
  • Poland issues a postage stamp in memory of the postal employees killed in the German attack on Danzig, September 1939. [343.334]
September 30
  • At the Nuremberg Tribunal, public reading of the findings begins. [145.44] [528.2057] [806.11,466]
October 1
  • At the Nuremberg Tribunal, public reading of the findings ends, with verdicts and sentences announced. Those sentenced to hanging: Hermann Göring, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Martin Boorman, Arthur Seyss-Inquart. Those sentenced to life imprisonment: Rudolf Hess, Walther Funk, Erich Raeder. Those sentenced to 20 years imprisonment: Baldur von Schirach, Albert Speer. Those sentenced to 15 years imprisonment: Constantin von Neurath. Those sentenced to 10 years imprisonment: Karl Dönitz. Those acquitted on all charges: Hjalmar Schacht, Franz von Papen, Hans Fritzsche. [145.45] [528.2057] [806.468]
October 10
  • The government of Ireland issues a statement condemning the Nuremberg trials as illegal. [555.50]
October 15
  • In his prison cell in Germany, Hermann Göring bites a cyanide capsule and dies. [145.45] [149.308] [166.418] [806.482]
October 16
  • (0000 to 0230 hours) Ten German leaders convicted at the Nuremberg Tribunal are hanged at Nuremberg. The bodies are cremated. [145.45] [149.308] [528.2059] [845.22]
October 29
  • The Allied Control Council of Germany issues Directive No. 42, closing the border between the Soviet and Western zones. [145.54]
December
  • The Privy Council in London, England, announces its ruling on the Canadian government's policy of deporting Japanese Canadians: government orders were valid, because they were made under the War Measures Act. [7.331]

End of 1946. Next: 1947.

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