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History on the 10th of September

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10 Sep 1224 RELIGIOUS The Franciscans (founded in 1209 by St. Francis of Assisi) first arrived in England. They were originally called "Grey Friars" because of their gray habits. (The habit worn by modern Franciscans is brown.)
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10 Sep 1718 RELIGIOUS The Collegiate School at New Haven, CT, changed its name to Yale. (Congregationalists, unhappy with an increasing religious liberalism at Harvard, had founded Yale, the third oldest college in America, in 1701.)
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10 Sep 1734 RELIGIOUS English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'Pain, if patiently endured, and sanctified to us, is a great purifier of our corrupted nature.'
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10 Sep 1794 RELIGIOUS Blount College -- the first American nondenominational institution of higher learning -- was established in Knoxville. (It later became the University of Tennessee.)
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10 Sep 1819 RELIGIOUS Birth of Canadian hymnwriter Joseph Scriven. The accidental drowning of his bride-to-be the night before their wedding led to a life of depression; yet he also authored the hymn of comfort, "What a Friend We Have in Jesus."
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10 Sep 1913 WW2 Henry Arnold married Eleanor Pool. 
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10 Sep 1917 WW2 Masafumi Arima was assigned to Iwate. 
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10 Sep 1922 WW2 Tenryu arrived at Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan. 
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10 Sep 1928 WW2 Panay was commissioned into service. 
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10 Sep 1928 WW2 Captain Yoshiyuki Niiyama was named the commanding officer of Nachi. 
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10 Sep 1934 WW2 After a mock battle conducted by the German Army, the 4th Nazi Party rally at Nürnberg, Germany at the end of the day. 
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10 Sep 1936 WW2 Do 18 flying boat "Zephir" piloted by Lufthansa Flugkapitän Blankenburg was launched from the German seaplane tender Schwabenland by catapult in the Azores. Do 18 flying boat "Aeolus" was similarly launched. 
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10 Sep 1937 WW2 Yuan Baokang claimed a Japanese aircraft over Nanjing, China. 
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10 Sep 1937 WW2 Tenryu completed her upgrade at Sasebo Naval Arsenal, Japan. 
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10 Sep 1938 WW2 At the Nürnberg, Germany rally, Hermann Göring spoke about Sudeten Germans being oppressed by the Czechoslovakians. 
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10 Sep 1938 WW2 New air regulations in Germany prohibited overflight by all foreign aircraft except along specified air corridors established for civil aircraft. 
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10 Sep 1939 WW2 HMS Oxley became the first Royal Navy submarine to be lost in the war when she was either torpedoed or rammed in error off the Norwegian coast by another Royal Navy submarine. Only two of the fifty-three crew survived. 
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10 Sep 1939 WW2 Canada declared war on Germany. 
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10 Sep 1939 WW2 HMS Eagle arrived at Colombo, Ceylon. 
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10 Sep 1939 WW2 Soviet ambassador to Poland Nikolai Szaranow was recalled from Warsaw. 
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10 Sep 1939 WW2 SS-Brigadeführer Wilhelm Fritz von Roettig became the first German general to die in World War II when he was killed in Action at Opoczno, Poland at about 1415 hours. 
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10 Sep 1939 WW2 German troops made a breakthrough near Kutno and Sandomierz in Poland. 
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10 Sep 1939 WW2 The Battle of the Atlantic officially began. On the very same day, the British Admiralty began organizing a convoy system. 
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10 Sep 1940 WW2 Battleship Bismarck fired 6 3.7cm shells against raiding British aircraft without any hits. 
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10 Sep 1940 WW2 Italian troops crossed the Libyan-Egyptian border. 
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10 Sep 1940 WW2 The French Navy informed the British Naval Attaché in Madrid, Spain at 1800 hours that three cruisers and three destroyers were sailing through the Strait of Gibraltar. Unaware that these ships were en route to Dakar in West Africa, a British-Free French joint target, the British Royal Navy allowed the French warships to pass. 
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10 Sep 1940 WW2 German armed merchant cruiser Atlantis sank British ship Benarty 1,250 miles east of Madagascar. The entire crew of 49 were taken prisoner. 
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10 Sep 1940 WW2 British submarine HMS Sturgeon attacked German submarine U-43 in failure 50 miles southwest of Norway. 
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10 Sep 1940 WW2 Adolf Hitler postponed the decision for launching Operation Sealion to 14 Sep 1940. 
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10 Sep 1940 WW2 Bad weather restricted the Germans to flying reconnaissance missions only through most of the day. At 1715 hours, 6 small raids approached London, England, United Kingdom; 2 bombers were shot down and all of the rest were turned back by British fighters at the cost of one Spitfire fighter. Also on this date, ocean-going ships were banned from the port of London as these easy targets attracted German attackers. Overnight, the East End section of London was bombed, damaging the Buckingham Palace among others; South Wales, West Midlands, and Liverpool were also attacked during the night. 
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10 Sep 1941 WW2 The first B-24 Liberator bombers were en route for Britain. 
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10 Sep 1941 WW2 Generalleutnant August Krakau succeeded Robert Martinek as the commanding officer of the German 7th Mountain Division. 
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10 Sep 1941 WW2 HMCS Moosejaw and another Flower-class corvette HMCS Chambly shared the sinking of the German submarine U-501 by depth charges and ramming; 11 German sailors were killed along with 1 Canadian sailor who boarded the sinking submarine; 37 German sailors survived. 
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10 Sep 1941 WW2 German submarines U-81, U-82, U-85, U-432, and U-652 attacked Allied convoy SC-42 100 miles east of Greenland, sinking 6 merchant vessels and damaging 2 more. 
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10 Sep 1941 WW2 German submarine U-111 sank Dutch merchant ship Marken 300 miles north of Brazil; all 37 aboard survived and were given food by U-111's crew. The survivors would later be rescued by a Spanish ship on 21 Sep 1941. 
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10 Sep 1941 WW2 British submarine HMS Thunderbolt sank Italian boat Svam I off Sirte, Libya. 
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10 Sep 1941 WW2 Italian submarine Topazio sank British ferry Murefte off Haifa, Palestine. 1 was killed; the survivors were picked up by Egyptian ship Talodi. 
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10 Sep 1941 WW2 German Panzergruppe 1 and Panzergruppe 2 completed the crossing of the Dnieper River in southern and northern Ukraine, respectively, and were both heading toward Kiev. 
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10 Sep 1941 WW2 Vice Admiral Nishizo Tsukahara was named the commanding officer of the Japanese Navy 11th Air Fleet. 
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10 Sep 1941 WW2 Scirè departed La Spezia, Italy for Gibraltar with three manned torpedoes on board. 
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10 Sep 1941 WW2 Shokaku became the flagship of Carrier Division 5. She would remain at Yokosuka, Japan for the rest of the month. 
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10 Sep 1941 WW2 Koichi Shiozawa stepped down as the commanding officer of the Yokosuka Naval District, Japan. 
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10 Sep 1941 WW2 The US 88th Infantry Battalion commenced training to convert to an air-landed role, following in the footsteps of the 550th Battalion which had successfully converted in late 1940. 
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10 Sep 1942 WW2 Cruiser Köln, with Admiral Scheer and Admiral Hipper, moved to the Alta Fjord to attack Allied Convoy PQ18, but the attack was aborted due to a British submarine attack. 
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10 Sep 1942 WW2 Another attempt by the Soviet forces to break out of Leningrad, Russia failed. 
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10 Sep 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-30 returned to Japan from Lorient, France. 
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10 Sep 1942 WW2 Yekaterina Budanova was assigned to the Soviet 437th Fighter Regiment. 
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10 Sep 1942 WW2 Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein shot down three Allied aircraft, increasing his total victories to 21. 
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10 Sep 1942 WW2 John Redman was made the US Navy Pacific Fleet's chief communications officer. 
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10 Sep 1942 WW2 German armed merchant cruiser Michel sank US freighter American Leader 850 miles west of Capetown, South Africa before dawn; 11 were killed, 47 survived and were captured by Michel. German submarine U-96 attacked Allied convoy ON-127 765 miles west of Ireland at 1631 hours, sinking Belgian ship Elisabeth van Belgie (1 was killed, 55 survived), sinking Norwegian tanker Steve (all 39 aboard survived), and damaging British tanker F. J. Wolfe (all aboard survived). At 2110 hours, a wolfpack of 12 German submarines approached ON-127; U-659 disabled British tanker Empire Oil with 2 torpedoes (all 53 aboard survived). 
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10 Sep 1942 WW2 British 29th and 22nd Infantry Brigades captured Majunga, Madagascar. Meanwhile, South African 7th Motor Brigade began advancing south from Diego-Suárez toward Tamatave. 
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10 Sep 1942 WW2 Matome Ugaki arrived at Rabaul, New Britain to meet with officers of the Japanese Navy 8th Fleet, Japanese Navy 11st Air Fleet, and Japanese Army 17th Army. 
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10 Sep 1942 WW2 Japanese destroyers Isokaze and Yayoi departed Rabaul, New Britain for Goodenough Island, Australian Papua with intention of evacuating the 353 troops of the Japanese 5th Sasebo Special Naval Landing Force there. 
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10 Sep 1942 WW2 Shokaku departed Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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10 Sep 1942 WW2 Destroyer Yukikaze arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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10 Sep 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-29 sank British cargo ship Haresfield at the mouth of the Gulf of Aden, killing 12. 
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10 Sep 1942 WW2 German 29th Motorized Infantry Division cut off Soviet 64th Army south of Stalingrad, Russia. 
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10 Sep 1943 WW2 After no report since 27 Jul 1943, the Japanese Navy presumed I-168 lost. 
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10 Sep 1943 WW2 Soviet troops launched the Second Taman Offensive Operation in the Caucasus region of southern Russia, penetrating the defensive Blue Line. 
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10 Sep 1943 WW2 Joseph Goebbels visited Adolf Hitler at Rastenburg, East Prussia, Germany, noting that he and Adolf Hitler had a conversation about the possibility of negotiating peace with either the Western Allies or with the Soviet Union in order to focus on the other. At the urging of Goebbels, in order to prevent the damaged morale from fermenting subversive activities, Hitler gave a radio address to motivate the German people. 
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10 Sep 1943 WW2 Elisabeth von Thadden hosted a birthday tea party in Heidelberg, Germany for members of the anti-Hitler Solf Circle. Unbeknownst to the party attenders, one of the guests, Paul Reckzeh, was a spy for the Gestapo. Almost all members were arrested and killed as the direct result of the intelligence Reckzeh gathered at this party. 
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10 Sep 1943 WW2 Douglas MacArthur met with Rear Admiral Robert Carney and Colonel William Riley at Brisbane, Australia regarding attacks on Rabaul in New Britain, Bougainville in Solomon Islands, and Treasury Islands near Bougainville. 
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10 Sep 1943 WW2 Naka arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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10 Sep 1943 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Cold storage building and equipment turned over to station. More of Air Group 16 on board. Part of Torpedo Squadron 16 (VT-16) departed. Part of Bombing Squadron 16 (VB-16) departed. 
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10 Sep 1943 WW2 By dawn, British 4th Parachute Brigade had reached Massafra, Italy 20 kilometers northwest of Taranto. Just outside of Taranto harbor, HMS Abdiel struck a mine and sank; 168 were killed. Further north, German troops captured Rome; the Germans suffered 619 casualties, and the Italians 1,295. 
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10 Sep 1943 WW2 A group of civilians blocked a German military vehicular column in Naples, Italy; in the subsequent clash, six German servicemen were killed. German troops fired on a group of civilians at the Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III (Vittorio Emanuele III National Library) in retaliation. 
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10 Sep 1943 WW2 Captain Shiro Shibuya was named the commanding officer of Nachi while the ship was at Paramushiro (Paramushir), Kurile Islands. 
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10 Sep 1943 WW2 John Basilone participated in a bond tour event in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States. 
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10 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Franklin provided support for campaign in the Palau Islands through 16 Sep 1944. 
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10 Sep 1944 WW2 US First Army captured Luxembourg. 
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10 Sep 1944 WW2 Allied patrols in Belgium crossed the German border near Aachen, Germany. 
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10 Sep 1944 WW2 US 83rd Infantry Division became part of the Ninth Army of US 12th Army Group. 
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10 Sep 1944 WW2 Heinrich Himmler ordered that all deserters would be shot, along with their families. 
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10 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Finback fired 6 torpedoes at a Japanese destroyer escort in the Western Pacific; all torpedoes missed. She would continue to shadow the convoy the warship was escorting. 
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10 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Parche began her third war patrol. 
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10 Sep 1944 WW2 British Army Major William Cavendish, Lord Hartington, the husband of the sister of future US President John F. Kennedy, was killed in action at Heppen, Belgium at the hands of a German sniper. 
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10 Sep 1944 WW2 Bernard Montgomery received a visit from Dwight Eisenhower at Brussels, Belgium during which Montgomery criticized Eisenhower's broad front strategy and demanded his army group to be the sole offensive force as current strategy placed the other two army groups in poor positions to launch attacks into Germany. Eisenhower responded "teady Monty, you can't talk to me like that. I'm your boss." 
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10 Sep 1944 WW2 The British 1st Corps (49th West Riding and 51st Highland Divisions) of the Canadian Army commenced the siege of Le Havre, the largest port in northern France, which had been earmarked for American use. The approaches to Le Havre were well protected by flooding, mines, anti-tank ditches and huge concrete gun emplacements primarily designed for sea defence. The German garrison of 11,000 (underestimated by Allied Intelligence as being around 8,700) was strongly provided with artillery. The siege opened with Allied aircraft dropping 4,000 tons of bombs on to the defences (followed by a further 5,500 tons over the two day battle). The 15-inch guns of HMS Erebus and Warspite were also brought to bear on the largest gun emplacements, although Erebus did receive some damage from return fire from the shore batteries. In addition, two heavy and six medium batteries added their support to the Divisional artillery Regiments during the softening-up process. The German resistance however proved less tenacious than expected resulting in a comparatively light Allied casualty rate of less than 400. Nevertheless on its capture the docks were found to have been thoroughly wrecked and it was over four weeks before the port could be used. 
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10 Sep 1944 WW2 After sundown, the two companies that the US 7th Armoured Division had managed to get across the Moselle River in France were counterattacked by German SS troops. 
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10 Sep 1944 WW2 Light carrier Ryuho departed Hashirajima, Japan for Yashima, Japan. 
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10 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Sunfish attacked a Japanese convoy in the Tsushima Strait, sinking Chihaya Maru and damaging two others, hitting them with 4 of 6 torpedoes fired. 
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10 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Wasp's aircraft attacked Japanese positions on Mindanao, Philippine Islands. 
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10 Sep 1944 WW2 Downed US and British airmen previously interned in Bulgaria were evacuated by train to Istanbul, Turkey. 
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10 Sep 1944 WW2 USS Marlin arrived at New London, Connecticut, United States. 
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10 Sep 1945 WW2 In Oslo, Norway, Vidkun Quisling was sentenced to death. 
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10 Sep 1945 WW2 Otto Skorzeny was transferred from Wiesbaden, Germany to Nuremberg, Germany; he traveled by aircraft with other top former German leaders. 
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10 Sep 1945 WW2 Sergei Kartashov reported to Victor Abakumov, giving recommendation on how SMERSH could control the proceedings at the Nuremberg Trials in Germany. 
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10 Sep 1945 WW2 The Allied re-occupation of Rabaul, New Britain officially began. 
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10 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Manta arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her second war patrol. 
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10 Sep 1945 WW2 Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru departed Maizuru, Japan. 
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10 Sep 1947 WW2 Hatazo Adachi passed away. 
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10 Sep 1947 WW2 The Soviet Politburo approved 9 more open trials of 137 accused German war criminals. 
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