15 Jul 1937
- Alfredo Oriani was commissioned into service. ww2dbase [Alfredo Oriani | CPC]
- The Chinese Communist Party issued the declaration of cooperation with the Nationalist Party in the war against Japan. ww2dbase [CPC]
- In Germany, the construction of Buchenwald Concentration Camp began by the inmates of the Lichtenburg Concentration Camp. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Buchenwald Concentration Camp | Ettersberg, Weimar | CPC]
- The keel of Albert Leo Schlageter was laid down by Blohm und Voss in Hamburg, Germany. ww2dbase [Blohm und Voss | Albert Leo Schlageter | Hamburg | CPC]
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