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		<title>8-Sep-39: Germans Penetrate Warsaw Suburbs; London Proclaims Expanded Blockade; US Declares Limited National Emergency</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/192</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Deutches Heer - the German Army]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deutsches Luftwaffe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[President Franklin Delano Roosevelt]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Troisième République (France)]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Unterseeboots (U-Boats)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The German Fourth Panzer Division of von Reichenau&#8217;s Tenth Army penetrates Ochota, a suburb of Warsaw. The division advanced 225 km in the one week of the war. Other elements of the Tenth Army are heavily engaged around Radom, 60 miles south of the capital, encircling about 60,000 Polish troops to the west of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4-Sep-39 &#8212; Germans Take Cracow, Push Toward Warsaw; First RAF Raid; Propaganda War Heats Up</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/175</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Danzig | Gdansk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deutches Heer - the German Army]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deutsches Kriegsmarine]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Empire of Japan - Nippon-koku]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Theater Battles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Lord of the Admiralty and Prime Minister Winston Churchill]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Raids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Royal Air Force]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fall Weiss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heligoland Bight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Josef Goebbels]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the fourth day of the war, the British Royal Air Force Bomber Command makes its first attack against Germany &#8212; a daylight raid with 29 Blenheim and Wellington bombers on warships in the Heligoland Bight. The German ship Admiral Scheer, a Deutschland class heavy cruiser (or pocket battleship) is hit three times, but the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3-Sep-39 &#8212; British, French Declare War on Germany; U-Boat Sinks Ocean Liner Athenia.</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/172</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Battle of the Border]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deutsches Kriegsmarine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deutsches Luftwaffe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Theater Battles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Lord of the Admiralty and Prime Minister Winston Churchill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Führer und Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Großadmiral Karl Doenitz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Großdeutsches Reich (Germany)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Messages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republic of Poland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sir Nevile Henderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telegrams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Translator Paul Schmidt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Troisième République (France)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States of America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unterseeboots (U-Boats)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War Begins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fall Weiss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Incidents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karl Doenitz]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At 09:00, British Ambassador to Germany Sir Neville Henderson delivers an ultimatum to Berlin stating that if hostilities in Poland do not stop by 11:00, a state of war will exist between Great Britain and Germany. Germany does not respond and at 11:15, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain goes on the radio to announce to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2-Sep-39 &#8212; British, French Deliver Ultimatums to Germans; Invasion Continues Successfully; Other Countries Declare Their Neutrality.</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/165</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ambassador Robert Coulondre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Battle of the Border]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Führer und Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Großdeutsches Reich (Germany)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kingdom of Italy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[President Franklin Delano Roosevelt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prime Minister and Il Duce Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sir Nevile Henderson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Telegrams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Troisième République (France)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States of America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War Begins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fall Weiss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[M. Robert Coulondre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republic of Poland]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As the second day of the war begins, British Ambassador to Germany Sir Nevile Henderson delivers a last warning to Germany; similar action was taken by M. Robert Coulondre on behalf of the French Government. German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop receives Sir Henderson at 09:40 and said he will refer the British Government’s communication [...]]]></description>
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		<title>21:00 1-Sep-39 &#8212; First Day of Polish Invasion Draws to a Close; Germans Mostly Successful.</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/159</link>
		<comments>http://stevepollock.de/archives/159#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Battle of the Border]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danzig | Gdansk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deutches Heer - the German Army]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deutsches Kriegsmarine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deutsches Luftwaffe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Theater Battles]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Republic of Poland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War Begins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Westerplatte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fall Weiss]]></category>

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German and Polish military order of battle, 1-Sep-39
The first day of the war is drawing to a close. General mobilization has been declared in Britain and France; the French also declare martial law. British naval reservists and the rest of army and R.A.F. reservists are also called up. Evacuation of British children continues; it involves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>15:00 1-Sep-39 &#8212; Hitler Addresses Reichstag, Justifies Invasion; Berlin &#8220;Calm, Apathetic&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/146</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Deutches Heer - the German Army]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[William Shirer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reichstag]]></category>

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15:00 &#8211; German Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler has addressed the Deutsche Reichstag and informed them of the invasion of Poland, as well as the justifications for it.
Assembled at 10 a.m., the Reichstag greets Hitler, who declares:
&#8220;For months we have been suffering under the torture of a problem which the Versailles Diktat created. A problem which has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>14:00 1-Sep-39 &#8212; Invasion of Poland Gathers Speed; 1,850,000 German Troops Attack 1,000,000 Polish Forces</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/143</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Deutsches Kriegsmarine]]></category>
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14:00 &#8211; The details of the German invasion of Poland are becoming clearer. The invading force consists of five armies and reserves (14 Infantry, 1 Panzer and 2 Mountain Divisions), all under command of General Walther von Brauchitsch, attacking from three directions &#8211; Silesia/Moravia and Slovakia, Western Pomerania and East Prussia.
In total, the attacking Wehrmacht [...]]]></description>
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		<title>08:00 1-Sep-39 &#8212; German Troops Attack Near Mokra, Poland; Battle of the Border Begins</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/133</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Theater Battles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Führer und Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler]]></category>
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German and Polish military order of battle, 1-Sep-39
08:00 &#8212; German troops, still without a formal declaration of war issued, attack near the Polish town of Mokra. The Battle of the Border begins.
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		<title>04:40 1-Sep-39 &#8212; World War Two Begins as Germans Invade Poland; Hostilities Commence at 04:40 with Attack on Wielun.</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/130</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Republic of Poland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Schleswig-Holstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War Begins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Westerplatte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fall Weiss]]></category>
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Wielun, Poland, after the initial German attack
04:40 &#8212; World War II begins with the implementation ordered by German Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler of Fall Weiss (Case White) the Wehrmacht&#8217;s operational plan for the invasion of Poland. Luftwaffe (German Air Force) aircraft attack the Polish town of Wieluń, destroying 75% of the city and killing close to [...]]]></description>
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