15 Mar 1935
  • In the Hohnstein trial in Dresden, Germany, members of the SA organization who staffed the Hohenstein Concentration Camp were sentenced to prison for mistreating concentration camp prisoners; in Nov of the same year, they were all pardoned without exception. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
  • Nobutake Kondo was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Navy Combined Fleet. ww2dbase [Nobutake Kondo | CPC]
  • Do 18A prototype flying boat took its maiden flight. ww2dbase [Do 18 | CPC]
Japan
  • Korechika Anami was promoted to the rank of major general. ww2dbase [Korechika Anami | CPC]

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Contributors: Alan Chanter, C. Peter Chen, Thomas Houlihan, Hugh Martyr, David Stubblebine
Special Thanks: Rory Curtis




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