7-Oct-39: Himmler Appointed German Race Commissioner; British Expeditionary Force Completes Movement to French Soil; US Will Continue to Recognize Polish Exile Government
Today is 7-Oct-1939, the 37th day of World War II; there are 2,156 days left in the conflict.
On the Western Front, small units of German Heer troops raid French lines in the west and there are artillery duels between German and French forces between the Moselle and Saar rivers. Meanwhile, along the English Channel, 161,000 British troops, 24,000 vehicles and tanks and 140,000 tones of supplies are now on French soil as the cross-channel transport of the British Expeditionary Force is completed. Protected by the British and French navies, no troops or transports are lost during the operation.
In Berlin, German Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler appoints Reichsfuehrer-SS Heinrich Himmler to the newly created post of Commissioner for Consolidation of the German Race and issues decree ordering that all ethnic Poles are to be evicted from German-occupied western Poland; those who refuse to leave are to be liquidated. Himmler’s brief as commissioner will be to eliminate persons of inferior ethnicity from the greater German reich.
In Washington, DC, the United States State Department announces that the government will officially extend diplomatic recognition to the Polish government-in-exile, located at the moment at Angers, France.