5 Oct 1938
- Japanese troops captured Ruoxi, Jiangxi, China. ww2dbase [Battle of Wuhan | CPC]
- Edvard Beneš stepped down as the President of Czechoslovakia. ww2dbase [Edvard Beneš | CPC]
- Egmont Prinz zur Lippe-Weißenfeld was awarded the Luftwaffe Pilot's Badget. ww2dbase [Egmont | CPC]
- Germany revoked passports belonging to Jews and made re-issuance of new passports more difficult; the new passports were stamped "J" to signify Jewish ownership. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
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