7-Nov-09: Fall Gelb Postponed Due to Weather; Czech Exiled Government Warned of German Invasion by Double Agent; Western Polish Jews Rounded Up; Dutch, Belgian Royals Appeal for Peace, Offer to Mediate
Today is 7-Nov-1939, the 38th day of World War II; there are 2,125 days left in the conflict.
Fall Gelb (Case Yellow), the invasion of France scheduled for 12-Nov, is officially postponed by German Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler due to bad weather. It is the first of 14 such postponements extending into January of 1940.
The Czechoslovakian government-in-exile in London receives reports of Fall Gelb from a man named Paul Thummel, who will later be unmasked as a double agent.
A German edict issued previously in occupied Poland consigning Warsaw’s Jews to an official ghetto area is temporarily withdrawn, even as Jews in western Poland are rounded up for deportations to ghettos in other Polish cities.
Dutch Queen Wilhelmina in the Hague and Belgian King Leopold III in Brussels officially issue a joint appeal for peace; they an offer of mediation to both the allies and Germany.