[Homer_J_Simpson]

Developments in Europe – 1
Arms Pact Signed – 1-3
Budapest Premier Incurs Nazi Wrath – 4
Reich Authorities Charged by Poles – 5
Danzig Nazi Says ‘We Want to Fight’ – 5
Reich Holds Time for Words is Past – 6
Reich Move Likely, London is Informed – 6
Danzig Crisis Held Preliminary To Reich Showdown With Britain – 7
French Now Plan 8,000 War Planes – 8
Fish’s Plan Diluted by Oslo Congress – 8

On the evening of August 19 Stalin announced to the Politburo his intention to sign a pact with Germany.

Winston S. Churchill, The Gathering Storm

German fleet update at reply #2.
Nazi-Soviet pact update at reply #4.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

With the commitment in secret for the Hitler-Stalin Pact on this day, tens of millions of innocent people were as good as dead. You might say they were ‘shovel-ready’.