| In Burma... Japanese forces surrender at Rangoon. (The Commander in Chief, General Kimura, surrenders himself on October 24, 1945.)
In New Guinea... Lieutenant General Adachi surrenders the Japanese 18th Army on Wom airfield, near
Wewak.
In Spain... The obligatory Falangist salute is abolished by
decree. In Occupied Germany... British military authorities publish a captured
Gestapo "death list" of 2300 British and Allied notables, including Churchill, the leaders of the French, Polish and
Czechoslovak governments in exile as well as numerous others. In
Moscow... An exhaustive report on the material damage cause by the
German-led invasion of the Soviet Union is released by the State
Commission for investigating German war crimes. The report concludes:
"The German invaders guilty of organizing and carrying out the
destruction of towns and villages, factories and mills, collective farms
and State farms and of plundering citizens' private property, must bear
full responsibility for their criminal misdeeds, while the damage caused
by the invaders to the national economy of the USSR and to Soviet
citizens must be indemnified by Germany." |
