Monday, October 30, 1939 - Soviet annex former Polish lands

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In Moscow... The USSR formally annexes the occupied Polish territories.

In Berlin... A German-Latvian treaty for the evacuation of Germans from the Baltic regions is signed.

In the North Atlantic... U-56 hits the British battleship HMS Nelson, the flagship of the Home Fleet, west of the Orkneys but the two torpedoes fail to explode.

In Britain... The first war film of the conflict, The Lion Has Wings, is premiered, featuring newsreel of a British air attack on a German fleet.

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In London... A government white paper exposes Nazi brutality towards dissidents and Jews, including the concentration camp system.
 
The German American Bund or German American Federation (German: Amerikadeutscher Bund, also Amerikadeutscher Volksbund) was an American Nazi organization established in the 1930s. Its main goal was to promote a favorable view of nazi Germany.

On October 30, 1939 the German American Bund made parade on East 86th St., New York City.-
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