German SS, the Azerbaijani Legion and the Russian collaborationist Kaminski Brigade, commenced killing Poles in the Wola district of Warsaw. The massacre was ordered by Himmler.
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Between 40,000 and 50,000 Poles would be murdered.
The weirdness of this is inescapable. The Russians in RONA were there partially in order to survive German captivity, and partial in an effort to free their homeland from Communist control. The Soviet Union had helped take away Poland's freedom by invading it along with Germany, and the Polish Home Army was attempting to free their homeland and was anti communist. The Azerbaijanis were fighting for the liberation of their homeland as well.
The 3d Army took Vannes.
The Cowra breakout occured in New South Wales in which 1,100 Japanese POWs broke out. They'd all be captured within ten days, although four Australians and 231 Japanese POWs would be killed.
The RAF destroyed the German U-boat pens at Brest.
The Soviet submarine Shch-215 sanke the Turkish motor schooner Mefküre resulting in the death of 300 Jewish refugees.
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