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1946 January 3 Karl Maria Weisthor (Wiligut) dies in Arolsen, Germany. Elsa Baltrush, his SS-assigned housekeeper, had been a member of Himmler's personal staff until she was appointed as Weisthor's housekeeper and traveling companion after his retirement from SS active duty in August 1939. (Mund; Roots)

1946 January 8 Articles of incorporation for American Action, Inc. are filed in Delaware and headquarters are established in Chicago.

1946 Leon Blum serves briefly as interim French premier, playing a key role in the establishment of the Fourth Republic.

1946 February The Soviets are said to have buried the remains of Adolf Hitler and his wife, Eva, as well as those of Joseph Goebbels and his family, at a site near Magdeburg in the Soviet zone of occupation.

1946 February Ezra Pound, after a psychiatric exam, is judged unfit to stand trial, and is confined to St. Elizabeth's Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Washington, D.C., for the next 12 years. Pound continued to write, but was not released until April 1958. He then returned to Italy where the Pisan Cantos, written while in custody resurrected his career after publication in 1948. It was awarded the Bollingen Prize in 1949.

1946 February 18 Pope Pius XII, during a reception for the diplomatic corps, declares that he has always condemned acts of injustice and moral outrages and merely avoided expressions (during the war) that could have done more harm than good. (Lewy)

1946 March 14 Karl Haushofer kills his wife, Martha, and then commits ritual suicide (Hari Kari) in the traditional Japanese manner.

1946 March 19 Chaim Hirschmann, one of only two survivors of the death camp at Belzec, is killed in Lublin during continuing antisemitic violence. (Atlas)

1946 April 18 The League of Nations is formally terminated and is succeeded by the United Nations (U.N.).

1946 May The British and Americans agree to end the taking of war reparations from their zones in Germany and agree to unite their administrations to share costs. This is the first definitive step toward the creation of a divided Germany.

1946 May 9 King Victor Emmanuel is forced to formally abdicate in his favor of his son, Prince Humbert.

1946 May 14 SS Col. Joachim Peiper goes on trial for war crimes at Dachau. Contrary to popular opinion, Peiper never claimed he was "only following orders" and proposed that he take full responsabilty for what happend, offering to sacrifice his own life, if his men would go without charge. His offer; however, was rejected. (Thomas Vanhassel)

1946 May 23 A branch office of American Action is opened in Los Angeles with the announcement that American Action had been formed "to combat the inroads that have been made on the U.S. government by alien-minded pressure groups." (McWilliams)

1946 June The U.S. begins war crimes trials for Japan's war-time leaders (to November 1948). Seven military leaders, including former prime minister Tojo Hideki receive death sentences. Sixteen received life sentences, and two others received prison terms. Regional tribunals are established by the U.S. to try other Japanese wartime leaders.

1946 June 2 Italy votes to become a republic, forcing the former King Victor Emmanuel and his son, King Humbert into exile.

1946 July 11 SS Col. Joachim Peiper is ordered hanged for the shooting of American prisoners at Malmedy. Peiper is taken to Landsberg Prison to await execution. Five years later, in 1951, he was still waiting, and in December 1956, he was paroled. (Secrets)

1946 July 19 Eduard Schulte, the man said to have first warned the West about the Holocaust, returns to Zurich from Germany. (Silence)

1946 July 26 Four Negroes are viciously murdered near Monroe, Georgia, allegedly by the newly revived KKK.

1946 August 17 A corporate charter is issued in Atlanta, Ga., to an organization calling itself the Columbians, Inc. According to its articles it was formed "to encourage our people to think in terms of race, nation and faith to work for a moral reawakening in order to build a progressive white community that is bound together by a deep spiritual consciousness of a common past and a determination to share a common future." (McWilliams)

1946 October 1 The War Crimes Commission in Nuremberg delivers its verdict. Eleven of the defendants are to be hanged, eight are sentenced to long prison terms, and three (Schacht, Papen and Fritzsche) are acquitted.

1946 October 15 At 10:45PM, Hermann Goering commits suicide with a cyanide capsule in his cell at Nuremberg just two hours before his scheduled execution. How he was able to obtain the cyanide is still a mystery.

1946 October 16 1:11AM, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop; Hitler's chief military advisor, Field Marshal General Wilhelm Keitel; General Alfred Jodl; Gestapo Chief Ernst Kaltenbrunner; Hans Frank, governor-general of occupied Poland; slave-labor czar Fritz Sauckel, Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick, Austrian Nazi leader Arthur Seyss-Inquart, and anti-Jewish propagandists Alfred Rosenberg and Julius Streicher are all hanged in the gymnasium of Landsberg Prison in Nuremberg for crimes against humanity. Streicher's last word was "Purimfest."

(U.S. Master Sgt. John C. Woods and 28-year-old MP Joseph Malta served as executioners. The ten hangings took just one hour and 15 minutes.)

1946 October 31 Arthur Weiss, Commander of Jewish War Veterans Atlanta Post No. 112, and 125 Jewish war veterans confront the Columbians at a meeting in Atlanta. Police intervene and violence is avoided.

1946 November 2 Homer L. Loomis, Jr., the self-styled Fuehrer of the Columbians and three other uniformed members are arrested for intimidating, by threats of violence, a Negro family from moving into a home in an Atlanta neighborhood. (Atlanta Constitution, November 3, 1946)

1946 November 5 The New York Times reports that the stated objectives of the Columbians were to make the U.S. into an "American nationalist state," to deport all blacks to Africa and to make America "a one-race nation"

1946 November 22 Homer L. Loomis tells a meeting of the Columbians that "Everybody in America is free to hate. Hate is natural. It's not un-American to hate. Why does the Jew think that he alone is above criticism and being hated?" (McWilliams)

1946 The United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly holds its first meeting in London, with Norway's Trygve Lie elected secretary general.

1946 John D. Rockefeller gives $8.5 million for a United Nations (U.N.) center in New York City.

1946 December 9 An American military tribunal in Nuremberg opens criminal proceedings against 23 leading German physicians and administrators for participation in war crimes and crimes against humanity. During what is called the "Doctors Trial" the defendants are accused of planning and enacting the "Euthanasia" Program, the systematic killing of those they deemed "unworthy of life." The victims included the mentally retarded, the institutionalized mentally ill, and the physically impaired. (See August 20, 1947)

1946 December 31 President Truman issues a proclamation officially terminating U.S. participation in World War II. (McWilliams)

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