Also in April Since the previous September, the French have arrested 126,000 people suspected of collaborating with the Germans. Of this total 55 percent were freed and 45 percent were passed to the courts for trial. The British evacuate 7,000 sick inmates from Bergen-Belsen. He is authorized to represent the United States during negotiations to create such a tribunal. The German garrison in Berlin surrenders to the Soviet army.
German forces surrender in Italy.
The Croatian concentration camp Jasenovac is liberated by units of the 21st Division of the Yugoslavian Army of National Liberation. Commandant Ziereis hands his command of the Mauthausen concentration camp to the Police Commander of Vienna. Theresienstadt is turned over to the International Red Cross. In the early afternoon, British planes attack three ships holding concentration-camp prisoners in the Bay of Lubeck. The prisoners had come from Neuengamme and its subcamps, but also from Dora-Millelbau and Stutthof.