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		<title>18-Dec-39: Soviet Attacks Continue on Various Finnish Defenses; Germans Down Half of British Air Raid Bombers Over Heligoland; Hitler Meets Quisling Again, Offers Aid; Graf Spee Fallout Continues</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/601</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 18-Dec-1939, the 79th day of World War II; there are 2,084 days left in the conflict.
Attacks by the Soviet Red Army continue on the Mannerheim Line around Summa, along with bombing of Helsinki from the air and shelling of battery positions along the Finnish Baltic coast. The United States Navy in Washington D.C. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>8-Nov-39: German Worker Arrested, Executed for Bürgerbräukeller Bomb Assassination Attempt that Narrowly Misses Hitler; Hans Frank Plans Mass Jewish/Polish Deportations; Dutch Flood More of Border Zone; Finns Reject More Soviet Proposals</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 8-Nov-1939, the 39th day of World War II; there are 2,124 days left in the conflict.
Georg Elser, a German workman opposed to the National Socialist government, conceals a time bomb in a support pillar in Munich&#8217;s Bürgerbräukeller. The target is Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler, who traditionally delivers an anniversary speech in the beer hall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6-Oct-39: Chinese Celebrate Victory in First Battle of Changsha; Final Polish Troops Surrender Near Kock; Finns Mobilize; Hitler Addresses Reichstag</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/322</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 6-Oct-1939, the 36th day of World War II; there are 2,157 days left in the conflict.
In Hunan province, Nationalist Chinese troops celebrate victory over the Japanese in the 11-day First Battle of Changsha. Some 40,000 out of 120,000 soldiers die in what began as an ambush and the Imperial Japanese Army is dealt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5-Oct-39: Victorious HItler Visits Conquered Warsaw, Reviews Troops; Diplomatic Activity Heats Up Over Lithuania; British, French Navies Begin Hunt for Graf Spee</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/320</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 5-Oct-1939, the 35th day of World War II; there are 2,158 days left in the conflict.
German Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler conducts a triumphal tour and review of his victorious troops in the conquered Polish capital of Warsaw, even as the German Heer continues mopping-up operations against Polish troops still at large in the region [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1-Oct-39: Chinese Successfully Repel Japanese Attack on Changsha; Poles in Warsaw Disarmed; Winston Churchill Makes His First Radio Broadcast of the War</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/301</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 1-Oct-1939, the 31st day of World War II; there are 2,162 days left in the conflict.
In a fight known as the First Battle of Changsha, Chiang Kai-Shek&#8217;s Chinese Nationalist Army scores a major victory over the Japanese Eleventh Corps in China&#8217;s northern Hunan province. The Japanese attempted to capture Changsha and the Tungting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>28-Sep-39: Polish Fortress Modlin Surrenders; Stalin, Ribbentrop Redraw Map of Eastern Europe in New Treaty; British Admiralty Rebuts German Naval Claim</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/288</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 28-Sept-1939, the 28th day of World War II; there are 2,165 days left in the conflict.
The British Admiralty issues a statement in response to German radio reports of the Kriegsmarine&#8217;s &#8220;recent successes against British warships in the North Sea.&#8221; The statement counters, &#8220;No British ship has been damaged nor any casualties incurred from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>27-Sep-39: Warsaw Surrenders; Hitler Makes Plans to Attack in the West and Establishes the RSHA; British Chancellor of the Exchequer Presents First War Budget and Raises Income Taxes</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/284</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 22:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 27-Sept-1939, the 27th day of World War II; there are 2,166 days left in the conflict.
After two days of heavy air and artillery attacks, Warsaw surrenders to German forces. The surrender comes after a siege which cost the lives of 2,000 soldiers and 10,000 civilians on the Polish side; 150,000 prisoners are also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>26-Sep-39: Germans Unleash Furious Assault; OKH Chief Brauchitsch (Left) Joins Warsaw Fight; French Ban Communists; Churchill Says U-Boat War Being Won by Britain</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/280</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 26-Sept-1939, the 26th day of World War II; there are 2,167 days left in the conflict.
Warsaw comes under heavy fire from German artillery; the Wehrmacht&#8217;s Eighth Army, personally headed by the Commander-in-Chief of the Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH &#8211; High Command of the Army) Generalfeldmarschall Walther von Brauchitsch, arrives and joins the attack. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>25-Sep-39: Germans Issue Second Ultimatum to Warsaw; Hitler Urges Speed; British Carrier Ark Royal Avoids Sinking</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/276</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 25-Sept-1939, the 25th day of World War II; there are 2,168 days left in the conflict.
While the German Wehrmacht issues a second ultimatum to the Warsaw capital garrison to cease its resistance and surrender, the Germans also increase their bombardment of the city, including heavy air attacks. Over 400 Luftwaffe planes (bombers and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>24-Sep-39: Germans Tighten Noose on Warsaw, Which Reports Mass Casualties; Kriegsmarine&#8217;s U-Boat Campaign Racks Up More Sinkings</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 24-Sept-1939, the 24th day of World War II; there are 2,169 days left in the conflict.
North of Warsaw, German Heer soldiers surround the Modlin Fortress. In the capital city itself, there are reports of very heavy casualties among both Polish defenders and civilians; hospitals are overwhelmed. In the south, Red Army troops enter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>23-Sep-39: Sigmund Freud Dies in London; Poles Fight on in Warsaw; Italy Reaffirms Neutrality; Germans, Soviets Plan Moscow Meeting</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/265</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 23-Sept-1939, the 23rd day of World War II; there are 2,170 days left in the conflict.
From London comes news that renowned Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud is dead at 83 years of age.
In Warsaw, Polish forces continue to fight on in the surrounded capital city even as food supplies begin to run low.
German authorities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>21-Sep-39: Romanian Prime Minister Assassinated; Deportation of Jews in Occupied Poland Begins; Roosevelt Urges Repeal of Neutrality Act Prohibition of Arms Sales</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/256</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 21-Sept-1939, the 21st day of World War II; there are 2,172 days left in the conflict.
In Bucharest, the Iron Guard, a Romanian Fascist paramilitary group, murders Armand Calinescu, the prime minister by blocking Calinescu&#8217;s car with a wooden cart and then shooting him and his guards.
After the assassination, the Iron Guard assassins then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20-Sep-39: First RAF vs. Luftwaffe Clashes of the War Occur Over Aachen; Britain and France Vow to Keep Fighting; British Conservatives Under Fire for Lack of Assistance to Poland</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/248</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a foreshadowing of greater clashes to follow, the British Royal Air Force and German Luftwaffe engage each other for the first time in the war. Three British Fairey Battle reconnaissance bombers are on a patrol over the Siegfried Line near Aachen, Germany when they are attacked by a flight of German Messerschmitt Me109 fighters.
This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>19-Sep-39: Hitler Triumphantly Enters Danzig, Declares It Will Be German Forever; Wilno Falls to Soviets; 100,000 Poles Surrender at Bzura</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 21:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 19-Sept-1939, the 19th day of World War II; there are 2,174 days left in the conflict.
German Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler arrives in Danzig for a triumphant parade and speech commemorating its return to the Reich. In his speech, he celebrates the return of the city, claims that it will be forever German, and ends [...]]]></description>
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		<title>18-Sep-39: U-Boat Sinks SS Kensington; Scandinavian Countries Say Trade Will Go On Unimpeded; Battle of Wilno (Vilnius) Begins Between Poles and Red Army</title>
		<link>http://stevepollock.de/archives/241</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Pollock</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is 18-Sept-1939, the 18th day of World War II; there are 2,175 days left in the conflict.
Seventy miles from the Sicily Islands in the North Atlantic, a German U-Boat shells the British merchant ship SS Kensington Court. The 4,863-ton ship was laden with wheat form Argentina and was bound for Birkenhead. The ship is [...]]]></description>
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