[Homer_J_Simpson]

08/09/1939: Polish defenders of the Westerplatte at Danzig surrender after a week of continuous bombardment. The Polish government leaves Warsaw for Lublin, while its forces surrounded at Radom face a hopeless situation.

http://www.worldwar-2.net/timelines/war-in-europe/eastern-europe/eastern-europe-index-1939.htm

At Bedzin, 200 Jews are burned alive in a synagogue by the Germans who charge Poles with the crime, and then execute 30 of them in a public square.

http://www.worldwar-2.net/timelines/the-holocaust/the-holocaust-index-1939.htm

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Chopin’s Polonaise in A, Op.40 No.1, ' Military '