14 Dec 1945
- SS personnel convicted of atrocities at Belsen and other concentration camps were executed by hanging. ww2dbase [Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | CPC]
- Doherty was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Doherty | CPC]
- Cummings was decommissioned from service. ww2dbase [Cummings | CPC]
- Frederick Aikman was released from RAF service. ww2dbase [Frederick Aikman | CPC]
- George Patton asked his wife Beatrice to prevent Walter Bedell Smith from visiting him at the hospital in Heidelberg, Germany. ww2dbase [George Patton | Heidelberg | CPC]
- German trawler V-6305, formerly the sunken British ship HMT Larwood, was mined off Norway. ww2dbase [HM]
- Sergei Khudyakov was arrested. ww2dbase [Sergei Khudyakov | CPC]
- William Halsey was honored with a ticker tape parade in New York, New York, United States. ww2dbase [William Halsey | New York | CPC]
- USS Ancon arrived at San Francisco, California, United States. ww2dbase [Ancon | San Francisco, California | CPC]
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