14 May 1946
Germany

Germany
- At the trials at Dachau Concentration Camp, the US charged SS-Hauptsturmführer Friedrich Becker (head of the labor department at Flossenbürg Concentration Camp), 33 low-ranking SS personnel, 16 prisoner functionaries, and 2 civilians for crimes committed at Flossenbürg Concentration Camp during the war. ww2dbase [Nuremberg Trials and Other Trials Against Germany | Flossenbürg Concentration Camp | Dachau, München-Oberbayern | CPC]
- USS Baya was decommissioned from service at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States. ww2dbase [Mare Island Navy Yard | Baya | Vallejo, California | CPC]


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