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Removed as Ger Navy comdr, Norway; desire to capitulate blamed
Big 3 (US-GB-USSR) wrestle again over Polish representation; changes in Dumbarton plan weighed; Argentine factor discussed; voting procedure on Charter text to fore; fight on conf comm office for Argentina seen
Berlin fell to the Russians yesterday and more than 70,000 prisoners were taken. The German pocket southeast of the capital was liquidated. The Baltic ports of Rostock and Warnemuende were won. [1:8; map P. 6.]
343,000 Gers killed and captured
De Valera calls at Ger Legation to express condolences on Hitler death
1945Davey Lopes, American baseball player, coach, and manager[†]
David Earl Lopes is an American former second baseman and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB). He batted and threw right-handed. He played in MLB for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Oakland Athletics, Chicago Cubs, and Houston Astros; he managed the Milwaukee Brewers.
1945World War II: Sinking of the prison ships Cap Arcona, Thielbek and Deutschland by the Royal Air Force in Lübeck Bay.[†]
A prison ship, is a current or former seagoing vessel that has been modified to become a place of substantive detention for convicts, prisoners of war or civilian internees. Some prison ships were hulked. While many nations have deployed prison ships over time, the practice was most widespread in 18th- and 19th-century Britain, as the government sought to address the issues of overcrowded civilian jails on land and an influx of enemy detainees from the War of Jenkins' Ear, the Seven Years' War and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.