Detroit restaurant owner Max Stephan was sentenced to death for aiding an escaped German prisoner of war. The sentence, which was commuted to life in prison by President Roosevelt, was the first such example since the Whiskey Rebellion.
German forces took Tikhoretsk and Armavir in their advance in the southern Soviet Union.
The Germans murdered several thousand Jewish residents of the Zdzieciol Ghetto in the Dzyatlava Massacre. The city was a Polish one, although it is now in Belorussian.
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