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		<title>24-Nov-39: Japanese Take Nanking; Germans Seize Property of Industrialist Ex-National Socialist; Belgians Register Concern; Royal Navy Rescues Sinking Survivors</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/507</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 24-Nov-1939, the 55th day of World War II; there are 2,108 days left in the conflict.
Over 100,000 Chinese troops attempt to repel the Imperial Japanese Army&#8217;s attack on Nanking but fail; the Japanese enter the city, breaking the Chinese winter offensive. The taking of Nanking represents the first Japanese victory in their drive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>15-Nov-39: Czech Student&#8217;s Funeral Turns Into Bloodbath, Neurath Closes Czech Higher Education; Ribbentrop Rejects Peace Appeal; French Add Work Hours; Last Chinese Port Falls to Japanese</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/482</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Far East]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[King Leopold III]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[SS Africa Shell]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[International Students Day]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jan Opletal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joachim von Ribbentrop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[King Leopold]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Konstantin von Neurath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Náklo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 15-Nov-1939, the 46th day of World War II; there are 2,117 days left in the conflict.
In the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, several thousand students attend the funeral for medical student Jan Opletal, shot in the stomach by German troops during anti-occupation demonstrations in Prague on 28-Oct, who died 11-Nov.
Opletal (1-Jan-1915 – 11-Nov-1939) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>14-Nov-39: Allies Meet Secretly with Belgians; Dyle Plan Accepted; Dutch, Belgian Royal Peace Offers Rejected by Germany; Prague Demonstration Violently Suppressed; Sikorski Arrives in London</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/474</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Belgian Royal Family]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Diplomacy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Negotiations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Phony War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queen Wilhelmina]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reichsprotektorate die Böhmen und Mähren]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Low Countries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Troisième République (France)]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Antwerp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dyle Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dyle River]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Wojtech Sikorski]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 14-Nov-1939, the 45th day of World War II; there are 2,118 days left in the conflict.
Allied military commanders on the Western Front meet secretly with Belgian military commanders in mostly inconclusive meetings, but there is agreement that British and French troops should immediately advance to a position known as the &#8220;Meuse-Antwerp Line,&#8221; southeast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12-Nov-39: King George VI Issues Negative Reply to Peace Appeal; First ENSA Entertainment Debuts; Germans Round Up Suspected Assassination Conspirators</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/470</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Belgian Royal Family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belgium]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bürgerbräukeller]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA)]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[First Lord of the Admiralty and Prime Minister Winston Churchill]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Maurice Chevalier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[München]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Albert Lebrun]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[RSHA Amt IV - Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo) Secret State Police]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 12-Nov-1939, the 43rd day of World War II; there are 2,120 days left in the conflict.
King George VI issues a gracious reply to a joint peace appeal issued by Dutch Queen Wilhelmina and Belgian King Leopold the previous week; he states that the onus of the war, and therefore the means to end [...]]]></description>
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		<title>11-Nov-39: Germans Say Neutrality of Low Countries Is Assured; BEF Holds Armistice Day Ceremonies on French Battlefields; In Radio Broadcast, Queen Elizabeth Exhorts British Women</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/457</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Belgium]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[British Expeditionary Force]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Elizabeth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 11-Nov-1939, the 42nd day of World War II; there are 2,121 days left in the conflict.
In response to invasion preparations in Holland and general nervousness expressed by the three Low Countries (Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg), the German Foreign Ministry issues a statement the promises the Germans will continue to respect the neutrality of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>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</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/449</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Queen Wilhelmina]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Holocaust (Shoah)]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[King Leopold]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Paul Thummel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5-Nov-39: Plot to Arrest Hitler Collapses from Lack of Nerve; German Intelligence Chief Warns Dutch of Imminent Invasion; City of Flint Saga Draws to Close; Finns, Soviets Continue Negotiations; Churchill Visits French Marine Headquarters</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/445</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Belgium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colonel Hans Oster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deutches Heer - the German Army]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deutsches Kriegsmarine]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fall Gelb (Case Yellow)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Lord of the Admiralty and Prime Minister Winston Churchill]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Führer und Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Generaloberst Ludwig Beck]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kingdom of Norway]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Murmansk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH)]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Col. Bert Sas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 5-Nov-1939, the 36th day of World War II; there are 2,127 days left in the conflict.
Commander in Chief of the German Army, Gen. Heinrich Alfred Hermann Walther von Brauchitsch, meets with Reichskanzler Adolf HItler to discuss the plans drawn up by Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH &#8211; the High Command of the Army) for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>29-Oct-39: OKH Takes Fall Gelb Revision to Hitler; Kriegsmarine Gives Go to Passenger Liner Attacks; Chinese Defections to Japanese Increase; Red Army Occupies Agreed Bases in Latvia</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/430</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Belgium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Army]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Expeditionary Force]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Deutsches Kriegsmarine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 29-Oct-1939, the 59th day of World War II; there are 2,134 days left in the conflict.
The German High Command of the Army, OberKommando des Heeres (OKH), in response to Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler&#8217;s order, brings him a revision to the plan for Fall Gelb (Case Yellow), the invasion of France. The main portion of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>27-Oct-39: Pope Pius XII Issues First Encyclical; King Leopold II of Belgium Asserts Neutrality; OKH Ordered to Revise Fall Gelb Planning; US Senate Approves Neutrality Act Alterations</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/424</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli, Pope Pius XII]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fall Gelb (Case Yellow)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Führer und Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 27-Oct-1939, the 57th day of World War II; there are 2,136 days left in the conflict.
From the Vatican, Pope Pius XII issues his first encyclical. The document condemns racism, dictatorships and violations of treaty obligations.
In a radio broadcast to the United States, Belgium&#8217;s King Leopold III asserts that Belgium is determined to defend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>19-Oct-39: German OKH Presents Plan for Fall Gelb, the Invasion of France; Turks Ink Treaty With Allies; Brits Note Increase in Road Fatalities Due to Blackout</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/384</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ango-French-Turkish Treaty of Mutual Assistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belgium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blackout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Army]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deutches Heer - the German Army]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deutsches Luftwaffe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deutsches Wehrmacht]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Directive No. 6]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fall Gelb (Case Yellow)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Führer und Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General Archibald Wavell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Generaloberst Franz Halder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Großdeutsches Reich (Germany)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Général d'armée Maxime Weygand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 19-Oct-1939, the 49th day of World War II; there are 2,144 days left in the conflict.
German Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler&#8217;s Führer-Anweisung N°6, Directive No. 6, was issued on 9-Oct, directing the Army to prepare for an invasion of France through the Low Countries as soon as possible. Today, General Franz Halder, Chief of Staff [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12-Oct-39: Germans Begin Jewish Deportations in Central Europe; Chamberlain Rejects Hitler Peace Move; Finns Meet With Soviets for Border Negotiations</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/352</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Austria/Ostmark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belgium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Army]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[British Expeditionary Force]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central Office for Jewish Emigration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Die Schutz-Staffel der NSDAP (SS)]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Finland]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obersturmbannführer-SS Adolf Eichmann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Propaganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) - Reich Security Main Office]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 12-Oct-1939, the 42nd day of World War II; there are 2,151 days left in the conflict.
In a secret move, the German Central Office for Jewish Emigration, under the auspices of the Shutzstaffel (SS) begins to carry out the deportation of Jewish people in the Ostmark (the former Austria) and the Protectorate of Bohemia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>9-Oct-39: Finland Calls Up Reservists; American Ship Captured by Germans; Hitler Issues Directive Ordering Invasion of Low Countries</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/335</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Belgium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deutches Heer - the German Army]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deutsches Kriegsmarine]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Finland]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Neutrality Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SS City of Flint]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fall Gelb (Case Yellow)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 9-Oct-1939, the 39th day of World War II; there are 2,154 days left in the conflict.
In Paris, officials arrest 35 French Communist Party deputies in parliament; they are charged with agitating against the war. This leaves just 11 Communist representatives in the legislative body.
While Finland has agreed to discuss border revisions with neighbor [...]]]></description>
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