28 Aug 1936
- German authorities arrested large numbers of Jehovah's Witnesses, sending some of them to concentration camps. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
- Spanish Nationalist aircraft bombed Madrid, Spain for the first time. ww2dbase [The Spanish Civil War | AC]
- U-23 was launched by Germaniawerft in Kiel, Germany. ww2dbase [Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft | U-23 | Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein | CPC]
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