459
June 21, 1939
Reborn German Fleet Maneuvers on High Seas;
Goebbels Speaks at Protest Rally in Danzig;
468
August 23, 1939
Hitler Youth on Danube Cruise to Budapest; Danzig SA Defends Border Against Poles;
German Refugees From Poland Tell of Oppression;
470
September 7, 1939
World War 2 Begins: Germany Invades Poland; Air and Sea Bombardment of Westerplatte;
German Tanks and Infantry Move Deep into Poland.
471
September 14, 1939
Polish Jews and Insurgents Taken to Camps; German Soldiers at Worship in Jasna Gora Church;
Wehrmacht Crosses Vistula River;
472
September 20, 1939
Hitler Reviews Troops at the Front; German Women at Work in Munitions Plant;
Tank Columns Advance and Enter Lodz;
473
September 27, 1939
House-to-House Combat in Captured Cities; Germans and Soviets Meet at Brest-Litovsk.
477
October 25, 1939
German Engineers Re-start Steel Mills in Silesia; German Troops Patrol West Wall Fortifications; U-Boat Captain Prien and Crew Welcomed in Berlin;
480
November 14, 1939
New Japanese Foreign Minister Takes Office; Assassination Attempt on Hitler in Munich.
482
November 29, 1939
Pre-Military Training for Hitler Youth; Impounded Foreign Ships in Kiel Harbor; Baltic Germans Resettled in Posen;
483
December 6, 1939
Sports Events in Spain, Japan and Germany; British Navy Blockades North Sea Countries; Luftwaffe Reconnaissance Over English Coast;
488
June 21, 1939
Evacuation of Tientsin by the British; Anti-Air Defense Exercises in Germany.
491
January 31, 1940
Ethnic Germans From Russia Return to Fatherland; Goebbels Tours Western Air Defense Zone;
492
February 7, 1940
International Winter Games in Bavaria; Hitler Speaks at Berlin Sports Palace; Luftwaffe Planes Sink British Ships in North Sea;
496
March 6, 1940
Duce Reviews Elite Militia in Rome; German Wartime Trade Fair in Leipzig; Blitzkrieg Formations in Combat.