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2012 – Charlie Rose, American lawyer and politician (b. 1939) 2013 – Ralph M. Holman, American lawyer and judge (b. 1914) 2013 – Pedro Ferriz Santacruz, Mexican-American journalist (b. 1921) 2013 – José Ramón Larraz, Spanish director and screenwriter (b. 1929) 2013 – Janet Lembke, American author and scholar (b. 1933)
September 1: World War II breaks out in Europe with Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland World War II was the biggest and deadliest war in history, involving more than 30 countries. Sparked by the 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland, the war dragged on for six bloody years until the Allies defeated the Axis powers of Nazi Germany, Japan and Italy in 1945.
September 3, 1939 Hostilities in the West 3 September 9, 1939 Transfer of Forces from Poland to the West 4 September 25, 1939 Finishing the War in Poland 5 September 30, 1939 Partition of Poland, removing restrictions on naval warfare. 6 October 9, 1939 Plans for Offensive in the West 7 October 18, 1939 Preparations for Attack in the West 8
2 September – Following the invasion of Poland, Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed to Nazi Germany. 3 September – The United Kingdom, France, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany. 3 September – British liner SS Athenia becomes the first civilian casualty of the war when she is torpedoed and sunk by U-30 in the eastern ...
The British War Blue Book; Documents concerning German-Polish relations and the outbreak of hostilities between Great Britain and Germany on September 3, 1939 (also here) The Finnish Blue Book the developments of Finnish‑Soviet relations during the autumn of 1939 including the official documents and the peace treaty of March 12, 1940
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 is a non-fiction book by Adam Hochschild that was first published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on March 29, 2016. [1] [2] The book is an account of the American volunteers who participated in the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939. The story centers around several American ...
Countdown to War is a television film made in 1989 as a co-production by Granada Television and PBS.It recounts the events that occurred between 15 March 1939, when the German army commanded by Adolf Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and created the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and 3 September 1939, the date when France and United Kingdom declared war on Germany.
The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945 is a non-fiction book written by historian Nicholas Stargardt.Centering upon the "thoughts and actions" of the citizens living inside Nazi Germany during the Second World War, the author argues that the war crimes committed by Adolf Hitler's totalitarian state had widespread awareness among regular people.