German diplomat George Ferdinand Duckwitz warned the Danish resistance that Berlin had ordered Danish Jews to be deported starting on October 1. The information allowed the Danish resistance to help 8,000 Danish Jews, nearly the entire Danish population of the country, to leave the country, 7,200 of whom were taken by Danish fishermen to Sweden.
Duckwitz was a career German diplomat and remained in West Germany's service after the war, first as ambassador to Denmark and later to India. He became Secretary of State in the Foreign Office in 1966. Israel accorded him the honor of Righteous Among the Nations in 1971. He died in 1973 at age 68.
Luxembourg was declared "cleansed of Jew" by the Germans after the deportation of its remaining 674 Jewish residents.
The British 10th Corps, an element of the U.S. 5th Army, broke into the Plain of Naples at Nocera. The U.S. 6th Corps advanced towards Avelino.
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