Fleet Admiral Halsey's ticker tape parade in NYC; prospective Class A war criminal Prince Konoe commits suicide
December 13, 2015-December 19, 2015
Location: Government Documents
As 1945 draws to a close war criminals are being rounded up and trials convening, of which there will be thousands in the coming decades, in all quarters of the world. This week at Luneburg, Germany, the British, having held a trial of former SS men, women and kapos of Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz concentration camps, execute 11 out of the 45 with the noose. Evidence produced by the British Army attract the international media, informing the public in some cases for the first time the systematization of mass murder as practiced by the Nazis.
In the US zone of occupation, the military governor has had the difficult task of dealing with half a million displaced persons. An increase from November is due in part to better registration, but also because of Jewish refugees from persecution in Poland and those Germans illegally moving in from a different zone. But this is but a small part of the many tasks facing the occupation force: demobilization of German Armed forces; reporting on status of prisoners of war; capturing of war criminals; clearance and destruction of armed installations; enacting directives for German society and its rehabilitation; and more, as can be seen in the monthly report for December by the military government, US zone.
Back in the US, Congress passes a resolution for establishing a Jewish homeland, free entry by Jews into Palestine and for making Palestine a democratic homeland. The transcripts of the hearings in the House Committee on Foreign Affairs can be read here in Problems of World War II and Its Aftermath Part 2.
Newsmap. Monday, 24 December, 1945: week of 11 December to 18 December
Front:Chart of U.S. troop deployment is keyed to world maps. 3 maps include Asiatic-Pacific, European, American areas of deployment. Verso: V-E, V-J, VD: there is an enemy still to be defeated. Text warns of venereal diseases.
- View this map in print in the Map Collection reading room, ground floor of UHM Hamilton Library, the week of 13 December 2015
- View this map online through the University of North Texas Digital Library (http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc839/)
Notes: Newsmaps were color posters issued by the U.S. Army and the Government Printing Office (GPO) on Mondays during the World War II. They combine maps, images, and news from the previous week’s war effort.
