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To: Homer_J_Simpson

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1939/oct39/f12oct39.htm

Nazis deporting Jews to Poland
Thursday, October 12, 1939

In Germany... The deportation of Jews from occupied Austria and Czechoslovakia to occupied Poland begins under the direction of an SS administration headed by Eichmann.

In Moscow... Soviet and Finnish representatives meet to discuss border revisions. The Soviets want the cession of some territory near Leningrad, control of the islands in the Gulf of Finland, use of the port of Hanko and other rearrangements of the border in the far north near Murmansk. In return they offer rather more land than they demanded in the Suomussalmi area. The Finns only feel able to offer a much smaller range of concessions.

In London... Chamberlain officially rejects the call for a European conference, to meet and resolve differences with Germany, made by Hitler on October 6. He says that to consider such terms would be to forgive Germany for all aggressions and he warns that German must choose between permanent security arrangements in Europe and “war to the utmost of our strength.” Furthermore, he states that “past experience has shown that no reliance can be placed upon the promises of the present German goverment.”

On the Western Front... The British Expeditionary Force is now fully deployed along the Franco-Belgian border, between Maulde and Halluin.


3 posted on 10/12/2009 5:55:42 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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To: abb

Didn’t take long to start deporting jews, huh?

I just have to wonder what WW2 would have been like if Germany had not devoted so many resources ethnic cleansing.


17 posted on 10/13/2009 12:09:51 AM PDT by GeronL ("On my twelfth day in office, Nobel nominated me..")
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