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President Roosevelt signs the GI bill into law, providing college or vocational education and a year of unemployment compensation for returning veterans.

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States.

General George Patton infamously slaps Private Charles Kuhl, who is suffering from battle fatigue, for what he perceives as cowardice. Subsequently on the 10th he slaps another private, Paul Bennett, unders similar circumstances.

The Rosenstrasse protest was a nonviolent protest carried out by the non-Jewish ("Aryan") wives and relatives of Jewish men who had been arrested for deportation. The protests escalated until the men were released.

Hans and Sophie Scholl, ringleaders of the anti-war White Rose movement, are into Gestapo custody. The other active members of the movement are soon arrested and interrogated.