Monday, May 19, 2025

Saturday, May 19, 1945. Landing in Syria and Lebanon.

The Australians took Tarakan Island.

More heavy fighting occurred on Okinawa.

The Czechoslovak Extraordinary People's Court distributed over twenty thousand sentences - seven percent of them being for life or the death sentence - to "traitors, collaborators and fascist elements."

Philipp Bouhler, age 45, Nazi official and philosopher committed suicide with a cyanide capsule while in a U.S. internment camp.

French troops landed in Syria and Lebanon to reassert control over the region.  The landings sparked protests from Arab nationalists.

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Friday, May 18, 1945. Paying the consequences.

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