December 14th, 1945 (FRIDAY)
WESTERN EUROPE: SS personnel accused of atrocities at Belsen and other concentration camps are hanged.
BELGIUM: Brussels: British forces enjoy a drink....
CANADA: Frigate HMCS Kirkland Lake paid off Halifax and laid up Bedford Basin.
U.S.A.: Captain Sue S. Dauser receives the first Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a nurse.
The Truman administration intervenes in the Chinese Civil War by dispatching General of the Army George Marshall, retired, to negotiate a truce between the Nationalist and Communist Chinese. Marshall retired last month.