Chronicle of the Second World War (October 1939)

Held the Baltic naval base capitulate.

An open letter from the Russian revolutionary and diplomat F. Raskolnikov condemning the Stalinist repressions was published in the emigrant New Russia.

A strange war . In France, the confiscation of property of the French Communist Party was announced. The next day, the arrests of Communist deputies began ^[1] .

Germans withdraw 30 divisions from Poland ^[2]

A strange war . The withdrawal of French troops on the Maginot Line. Killed 20,000 soldiers.

Decision of the Pan-American Conference to establish a 300-mile maritime security zone along the coast of the Americas south of Canada (Panama Declaration).

By secret order, the Germans living in Poland who took part in the German pogroms were amnestied. ^[2]

Soviet-Latvian pact on mutual assistance with the provision of military bases to the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union offers Finland to start negotiations.

The last outbreak of organized Polish resistance was suppressed in Kock (north of Lublin ), where on October 6 ^[3] 17 thousand Poles ^{[2] [4]} surrendered.

Despite the defeat of the army and the actual occupation of the entire territory of the state, officially Poland did not capitulate to Germany and the Axis countries. In addition to the partisan movement inside the country, the war was continued by numerous Polish military formations as part of the Allied armies.

Even before the final defeat of the Polish army, its command began to organize the underground - the Polish Victory Service .

One of the first partisan detachments in Poland was created by a cadre officer, Henrik Dobrzyanski, together with 180 soldiers from his military unit. This detachment fought with the Germans for several months after the defeat of the Polish army.

At a meeting of the Reichstag, Hitler summed up the results of the Polish campaign, at which he proposed peace to the West. At the same time, he demanded a revision of the Versailles Agreement, the return of lost colonies to Germany and the lifting of arms restrictions. Since Germany at that moment turned into a hegemon in central Europe, Hitler's peace initiative was rejected by France on 10, and Britain on October 12.

Sino-Japanese war . The first Changshai operation .

Reichsführer SS and police chief Heinrich Himmler orders “Strengthening German national statehood” by forcibly relocating the Poles to the formed Governor General ^[2]

The Reich Chancellery discussed the implementation of plans for euthanasia. It was supposed to destroy 65–70 thousand people.

12 Hitler's decrees on the liquidation of the Polish state, the annexation of the western voivodships of Poland to Germany and the creation of a “governor general of the occupied Polish regions”.

USSR transfers to Lithuania previously located in Poland Vilnius ^[2]

A strange war . Directive No. 6 of the German High Command on the preparation of an attack on France was adopted.

Soviet-Lithuanian pact on mutual assistance with the provision of military bases to the Soviet Union.

Sino-Japanese war . On October 10, Chinese troops launched a counterattack against units of the 11th Army in the direction of Nanchang, which they managed to occupy on October 10. During the operation, the Japanese lost up to 25 thousand people and more than 20 landing ships ^[5] .

Occupied by the Germans and not part of Germany, the lands were turned into a governor general under the leadership of the rehsmin Hans Frank. Deportation of Jews from Austria, and the protectorate of the Czech Republic and Moravia ^[2]

The proposal of the Soviet Government to the Government of Finland to conclude a mutual assistance agreement.

U-47 captain Gunther Prien drowns the Royal Oak English battleship in Scapa Flow Bay (Scapa Flow) ^[2]

Germany and Estonia sign a protocol on the resettlement of Baltic Germans ^[2]

Establishment by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the Gold Star medal , an insignia of the Hero of the Soviet Union.

Sino-Japanese war . On October 16, 1939, the 5th division of Japan was secondly transferred to the Chinese south, attached to the 21st army, and after the liquidation of the last on February 9, 1940, it was transferred to the 22nd army and sent to conquer French Indochina .

During the raid of German aviation on Scapa Flow, the outdated battleship Iron Duke was seriously damaged ^[2]

To replace the dead brother

The signing in Ankara of the English-French-Turkish agreement on mutual assistance.

A strange war . Directive of the German High Command of the Ground Forces on strategic concentration and deployment of forces for conducting an operation in the West (Operation Gelb).

2,000 Jews deported from Vienna to the Governor General ^[2]

Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano Count von Cornelazzo and German Ambassador Hans Georg von Mackensen agree on the resettlement of Germans from South Tyrol ^[2]

The “Governor-General for the Occupation of Polish Territory” is being created (Generalgouvernements für die besetzen pollnischen Gebiete)> ^[6]

Himmler issues an order addressed to unmarried SS members to take part in the education of youth ^[2]

Anti-fascist demonstrations in Prague, Brno, Ostrava, Kladno and other cities of Czechoslovakia in honor of the 21st anniversary of the Czechoslovak Republic.

On October 29, 1939, the Military Council of the Leningrad Military District submitted, for approval, to the NPO of the USSR “The Plan of Operation for the rout of the ground and naval forces of the Finnish Army”. People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR K. E. Voroshilov approved this plan. The overall plan of the operation plan was as follows: “Upon receipt of an offensive order, our troops simultaneously invade Finland in all directions in order to disperse the enemy forces and, in cooperation with aviation, inflict a decisive defeat on the Finnish army” ^[7] .

The operation plan indicated the terms (not real) allocated to the entire operation. In particular, for the 7th and 8th armies, they were determined in 10-15 days, with an average advance of army forces of 10-12 km per day ^[8] .

An agreement is being concluded with Lithuania on relocation. An order is issued to expel Jews from Pomerania, West Prussia (Posen) and Upper Silesia ^[2]

In Lodz, Hans Frank sets out the principles of occupation policy ^[2]

Speaking at a session of the USSR Supreme Council, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov said to the thunderous applause: “It took not so much a blow from the German armed forces and the Red Army units that joined them, so that Poland - this disgusting creation of the Versailles Treaty - didn’t have anything left”

Occupants in the occupied territory launched a wide campaign to destroy the Polish intelligentsia, clergy and officers of the armed forces. Several thousand Polish officers were shot in Katyn near Smolensk. After the capture of the territory during the Second World War, the German command invited representatives of the International Red Cross and presented them with irrefutable evidence of this crime ^[9]