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To: Homer_J_Simpson

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1939/oct39/f30oct39.htm

Soviet annex former Polish lands
Monday, October 30, 1939 www.onwar.com

In Moscow... The USSR formally annexes the occupied Polish territories.

In Berlin... A German-Latvian treaty for the evacuation of Germans from the Baltic regions is signed.

In the North Atlantic... U-56 hits the British battleship HMS Nelson, the flagship of the Home Fleet, west of the Orkneys but the two torpedoes fail to explode.

In Britain... The first war film of the conflict, The Lion Has Wings, is premiered, featuring newsreel of a British air attack on a German fleet.

In London... A government white paper exposes Nazi brutality towards dissidents and Jews, including the concentration camp system.

3 posted on 10/30/2009 5:20:12 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)

http://www.uboat.net/boats/u56.htm

30 Oct 1939. One of 4 German U-boats operating west of the Orkneys U-56 locates the British battleships Nelson, Rodney and Hood with 10 destroyers and attacks. Torpedo failure ruins the favorable attack chance.

4 posted on 10/30/2009 5:21:26 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)

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