3 May 1938
- HMS Afridi was commissioned into Royal Navy service with Captain G. H. Creswell as her first commanding officer. ww2dbase [AC]
- The first transport, containing 100 prisoners, arrived at the newly established Flossenbürg Concentration Camp in southern Germany. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Flossenbürg Concentration Camp | Flossenbürg, Bayreuth | CPC]
- The German diplomats in London, England, United Kingdom reported that the British and the French were likely to support the German bid for the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia in order to avoid war. ww2dbase [Munich Conference and the Annexation of Sudetenland | London, England | CPC]
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