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Nazis confront Prague demonstrations
Wednesday, November 15, 1939 www.onwar.com
In Occupied Czechoslovakia... There are large-scale demonstrations at the funeral of Jan Opletal, a medical student who was mortally wounded in Prague on October 28th. Police forces (possibly including elements of the Gestapo) make numerous arrests of Czech nationalist protesters. Casualty reports range from 12 injured to suggestions of summary executions.
In Berlin... German Foreign Minister, von Ribbentrop, formally rejects the offer of Belgium-Dutch mediation made by King Leopold and Queen Wilhelmina in meetings with official representatives. He states that as a result of the “blunt rejection” of the German peace appeal by Britain and France, the German government considers the matter closed.
In France... Three hours are added to the working week, making it 43 hours long.
In China... Japanese forces capture the port of Pakhoi.
In the Indian Ocean... The German pocket-battleship Admiral Graf Spee sinks the British tanker Africa Shell south of Madagascar.
“The Great Ressetlement” of Baltic Germans (Volksdeutsche) from Estonia ends today, and will end in Latvia on Dec. 12
These Baltic German “repatriants” were at first settled in the regions annexed from Poland October 12 (the former “Polish corridor” that Germany forfeited as a result of the Treaty of Versailles) that were now the Reich provinces Danzig-Westpreussen and Warthegau.
In order to accommodate the Baltic Germans, and compensate them for the material possessions left behind in Estonia and Latvia, Poles and Jews were displaced, their property and possessions confiscated and they themselves were taken to occupied regions of Poland (the General Government), from June 1940 onwards.
With increasing numbers of ethnic Germans arriving, increasing numbers of Poles and Jews had to be displaced thus creating growing problems for the technocrats in charge of displacement, encouraging them to seek more radical solutions, especially with respect to the future fate of the Jews.
The Baltic Germans were followed by ethnic Germans from Volhynia, Galicia and Narew in the first months of 1940, and in the summer, Germans from the territories of Bessarabia and Bukovina annexed by the Soviets from Romania and from the Romanian territory of Dobrudja.
These were in the end followed by Germans from Lithuania in early 1941 and Nachumsiedler (late resettlers) from Estonia and Latvia. By March 1941 some 500,000 Volksdeutsche were returned, half of whom were still in camps, but from these regions 408,000 Poles and Jews were displaced to the General Government.
It is no coincidence that this happens at the same time as the systematic destruction of Jews begins.