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• As a reaction to criticism from the German justice department on the increasing number of "unnatural deaths" in concentration camps, the Gestapo released behavior guidelines for the guards during this month. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | CPC]
• Fregattenkapitän Otto Backenköhler took command of cruiser Köln. ww2dbase [Köln | CPC]
• Hugo Sperrle was promoted to the rank of Generalmajor. ww2dbase [Hugo Sperrle | CPC]
• The keel of submarine Pollack was laid down. ww2dbase [Pollack | CPC]

• Walther von Brauchitsch was promoted to the rank of General der Artillerie. ww2dbase [Walther von Brauchitsch | CPC]
• Fleet escort ship F6 was launched at the Krupp Germania Werft yard in Kiel, Germany. ww2dbase [Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft | F6 | Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein | CPC]
• The order for the construction of Horst Wessel was issued. ww2dbase [Horst Wessel | Albert Leo Schlageter | CPC]

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