15 Mar 1946
- The Greek Civil War began. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Nikolai Voznesensky stepped down as the First Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union. ww2dbase [Nikolai Voznesensky | CPC]
- Georgy Malenkov stepped down as the deputy of the Soviet Council of Commissars. ww2dbase [CPC]
- At Camp Tomato in Minden, Germany, Rudolf Höss confessed to having supervised the murder of countless Jews at Auschwitz Concentration Camp in occupied Poland. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Rudolf Höss | Minden | CPC]
- Joseph Stalin renamed all Soviet commissariats to ministries. ww2dbase [Joseph Stalin | Moscow | CPC]
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