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• German newspaper Kinzigwacht declared the town of Gelnhausen, Germany Judenfrei, "Free of Jews", after the town's synagogue closed its doors and the Jews forced to moved out. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
• Quintin Brand was promoted to the rank of air commodore while commanding the No. 12 Group. ww2dbase [Quintin Brand | CPC]
• Wilhelm Keitel was promoted to the rank of Generaloberst. ww2dbase [Wilhelm Keitel | CPC]
• The trial of the Partido Obrero de Unification Marxista (POUM) leaders in Barcelona, Spain was completed; two of the defendants were acquitted but four others were sentenced to imprisonment. The revolutionary anti-Stalinist Marxist POUM was formed in 1935 as the result of the merger of the Workers and Peasants Bloc (BOC), led by Joaquin Maurin, and Izquierda Comunista (Left Communist Party), led by Andres Nin. ww2dbase [AC]

• Károly Beregfy was made the commanding officer of Hungarian 2nd Motorized Brigade. ww2dbase [Károly Beregfy | CPC]

• Viktor Abakumov was named the head of the 2nd Section of the 2nd Department of the GUGB of the Soviet NKVD. ww2dbase [Viktor Abakumov | CPC]

• Stephen Beattie was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander. ww2dbase [Stephen Beattie | CPC]

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