November 6th, 1945 (TUESDAY)
GERMANY: Captain Walter Farmer, director of the Wiesbaden Central Collecting Point, is ordered by the US Military Government office to select at least two hundred German museum-owned artworks and ship them to the United States to be stored at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Reportedly, General Lucius Clay had several reasons for issuing the order: to hold on to the art in exchange for wartime reparations; to hold the paintings in trusteeship for the German people and return the items once the nation earned the right to retain ownership; fear that the Soviet Union could steal the masterpieces; and entitlement of the American people to view the masterpieces. Farmer is outraged; He calls this "blatant looting" and "systematic looting" of the Kaiser Friedrich Museum and the Berlin Nationalgalerie by the U.S. Army. (Peter Kilduff)(205 p.65)
U.S.S.R.: Moscow: The USSR says that it will build its own atomic bomb.
CANADA:
Minesweeper HMS Goderich paid off Halifax and laid up Sorel, Province of Quebec
Depot ship HMCS Preserver paid off.
UNITED STATES: Top songs on the pop record charts are: "Till the End of Time" by Perry Como, "I'll Buy that Dream" by The Pied Pipers, "That's for Me" by Dick Haymes and "With Tears in My Eyes" by Wesley Tuttle.