2 Mar 1938
China
China
- The last US Army troops departed Tianjin, China; 200 US Marines remained in the city to guard American interests there. ww2dbase [Tianjin | CPC]
- Martin Niemöller was tried by a special court appointed by the Nazi German government for anti-German activities. He would be sentenced to a 7-month prison sentence and a fine of 2,000 Reichmarks. ww2dbase [Martin Niemöller | CPC]
- The Trial of the Twenty-one opened in Moscow, Russia, a show trial at the end of the Great purges against 21 prominent Bolsheviks accused of anti-Stalinist plots. ww2dbase [Moscow | AC]
- Kirill Meretskov was awarded his second Order of Red Banner. ww2dbase [Kirill Meretskov | CPC]
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