HISTORY Part VI: Historical Lessons learned from power hungry Nazi leaders, Nazi war crimes, terrorism, acts of violence, and justice in 1939
AGN Life: Part VI
December 5, 2022
WASHINGTON (AGN.News) – This is Part VI of our Historic Lessons series. History can be defined as the study and documentation of the past. This history is a record of past events in 1939.
History is a record of inventions. History is a record of people and their accomplishments, of governments and their successes and failures. History offers us a window into the future.
“History” is an umbrella term comprising facts of past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of past events
1939 Historical politically-motivated events
On 30 January 1939, Nazi German dictator Adolf Hitler gave a speech in the Reichstag, which is best known for the prediction he made that “the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe” would ensue if another world war were to occur.
The speech lasted two or two-and-a-half hours on the sixth anniversary of Hitler’s seizure of power in 1933.
With war coming, nations build alliances
On April 16, 1939, The Soviet Union proposed an alliance with Britain and France to counter Nazi Germany. The Soviets would later sign a secret agreement with the Nazis.
On April 18, 1939, Franz von Papen became the German ambassador in Turkey.
On April 28, 1939, Adolf Hitler claimed the German-Polish non-attack treaty was still in effect.
On May 7, 1939, Germany and Italy announce an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis.
On May 22, 1939, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini sign “Pact of Steel” in Berlin, Germany.
Adolf Hitler prepares for war
On May 23, 1939, Adolf Hitler proclaims he wants to move into Poland. Four years earlier Hitler had appointed Hermann Göring commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe (air force), a position he held until the final days of the regime.
Upon being named Plenipotentiary or a diplomat who has full powers, of the Four Year Plan in 1936, Göring was entrusted with the task of mobilizing all sectors of the economy for war, an assignment which brought numerous government agencies under his control.
Later in September 1939, Hitler designated Göring as his successor and deputy in all his offices. This designation gave Hermann Göring unlimited power in Nazi Germany.
On June 1, 1939, retired General Gerd von Runstedt, born 12 December 1875 into a Prussian family with a long military tradition, Rundstedt entered the Prussian Army in 1892.
Though retired, Runstedt was recalled into the military at the beginning of World War II as commander of Army Group South in the invasion of Poland.
On August 8, 1939,The 7th Venice Film Festival opens with a United States boycott due to Benito Mussolini’s Fascist Italian regime.
On August 15, 1939, 13 Nazi Luftwaffe Stuka dive bombers crash into the ground during a disastrous practice-demonstration at Neuhammer-am-Queis, Silesia, Germany (now Świętoszów, Poland). There were no survivors.
The stage is set for war
On August 23, 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union (Vyacheslav Molotov) Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotav) agree the Molotov-Ribbentrop (German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop) non-aggression pact and secretly divide Poland between themselves, setting the stage for World War II.
On August 24, 1939, Germany and Russia (USSR) sign 10-year non-aggression pact. This was broken during World War II.
On August 27, 1939, Nazi Germany demands Danzig and Polish corridor as Hitler prepares to invade Poland.
On August 30, 1939, Poland mobilizes for war as the Nazi army prepares to attack on September 1, 1939.
False flag attacks starts war
On August 31, 1939, The Nazis started several false flag attacks in Poland. The first false flag attack staged by Nazi Germany at night on the radio station Sender Gleiwitz in Gleiwitz (then Germany and now Gliwice, Poland).
The attack was manufactured by Germany as a casus belli to justify the invasion of Poland. Prior to the invasion, Adolf Hitler gave a radio address condemning the acts and announcing German plans to attack Poland, which began the next morning.
Hitler makes his “war” moves
On September 1, 1939, Fascist Adolf Hitler orders extermination of all mentally ill people through the “T4 Euthanasia Program,” arguing that wartime “was the best time for the elimination of the incurably ill”.
On September 1, 1939, Reporter Clare Hollingworth OBE (1911-2017) was an English journalist and author. She was the first war correspondent to report the outbreak of World War II, described as “the scoop of the century”.
As a rookie reporter for The Daily Telegraph in 1939, while traveling from Poland to Germany, she spotted and reported German forces massed on the Polish border.
Nations takes on Nazi Germany
On September 1, 1939, Switzerland mobilizes its armed forces and the Swiss Parliament elects Henri Guisan to head the Swiss Army (an event that can happen only during war or mobilization).
On September 1, 1939, Pre-war Switzerland proclaims neutrality at the outbreak of WW II.
On September 1, 1939, The German Wound Badge for Wehrmacht, SS, Kriegsmarine, and Luftwaffe soldiers is instituted. The final version of the Iron Cross was also instituted on this date.
On September 1, 1939 World War II started when Germany invades Poland by attacking the Free City of Danzig.
Europe: Nazis start World War II
On September 3, 1939, World War II: Britain declares war on Germany after invasion of Poland. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & Canada
On September 3, 1939, German submarine U-30, commanded by Oberleutnant Fritz-Julius Lemp, sinks British passenger ship SS Athenia; 117 people die, among them 28 Americans.
On September 3, 1939, Mitford sister and Nazi sympathizer Unity Mitford attempts suicide after Britain declares war on Germany, bullet lodged in her brain eventually kills her in 1948.
On September 3, 1939, Dutch Second Chamber affirms the Netherlands is in a State of War with Germany.
Europe: Allies confronts Nazi aggression
On September 4, 1939, German troops move into Danzig.
On September 4, 1939, Mir, a Nazi ghetto in occupied Poland, is exterminated.
On September 4, 1939, Royal Air Force (RAF) bombs Wilhelmshafen, Germany.
On September 4, 1939, Netherlands and Belgium declare neutrality.
On September 28, 1939, German-Soviet Frontier Treaty is signed by Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov. The Treaty redraws German and Soviet spheres of influence in central Europe and transfers most of Lithuania to the USSR.
On October 6, 1939, Hitler having just returned from a tour of the ruined city of Warsaw, Hitler declared, he would “… attempt to reach a solution and settlement of the Jewish problem.”
Hitler spent much the 80 or 90 minutes of the speech in a celebratory and highly mendacious accounting of the conquest of Poland. Hitler averred that “A state of no less than 36,000,000 inhabitants… took up arms against us.”
How can we benefit from history?
These historic events can prove to be a lesson for ordinary people. Have respect, proper conduct and behavior towards ones fellowman, ones neighbor, ones community, ones country, universal laws, law enforcement, and ones family.
Historical Lessons… encourages and promotes the positive of an idea which leads to building better communities while the negative of an idea leads to suspicion, accusations, conspiracy theory, and a less than ideal outcome.
Historical Lessons on crime, antisemitism, hate, and injustice against ordinary people by those with extreme ideology can motivate any open-minded person to weigh and prioritize the facts over conspiracy theories and disinformation. Positive will always triumph (good) over negative (evil).
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