12 Mar 1946
- Ferenc Szálasi was executed. ww2dbase [Ferenc Szálasi | CPC]
- Regarding the countless German civilian deaths as the result of Allied bombing, Wing Commander Millington, MP of Chelmsford, said at the House of Commons "We want - that is, the people who served in Bomber Command of the Royal Air Force and their next-of-kin - a categorical assurance that the work we did was militarily and strategically justified." ww2dbase [Bombing of Hamburg, Dresden, and Other Cities | CPC]
- Herman Göring's attorney Dr. Otto Stahmer convinced the war crimes tribunal in Nürnberg, Germany to investigate further into the Soviet version of the description of the Katyn massacre. ww2dbase [Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | Nürnberg, Franken | CPC]
- Károly Beregfy was executed by hanging in Budapest, Hungary. ww2dbase [Károly Beregfy | Budapest | CPC]
- Dragoljub Mihailovic was found and captured by Yugoslavian Communists in eastern Bosnia. ww2dbase [Dragoljub Mihailovic | Bosnia | CPC]
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