Thursday, October 12, 1939 - Nazis deporting Jews to Poland

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The deportation of Jews from occupied Austria and Czechoslovakia to occupied Poland begins under the direction of an SS administration headed by Eichmann.


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In Moscow...
Soviet and Finnish representatives meet to discuss border revisions. The Soviets want the cession of some territory near Leningrad, control of the islands in the Gulf of Finland, use of the port of Hanko and other rearrangements of the border in the far north near Murmansk. In return they offer rather more land than they demanded in the Suomussalmi area. The Finns only feel able to offer a much smaller range of concessions.

In London...
Chamberlain officially rejects the call for a European conference, to meet and resolve differences with Germany, made by Hitler on October 6. He says that to consider such terms would be to forgive Germany for all aggressions and he warns that German must choose between permanent security arrangements in Europe and "war to the utmost of our strength." Furthermore, he states that "past experience has shown that no reliance can be placed upon the promises of the present German goverment."

On the Western Front...
The British Expeditionary Force is now fully deployed along the Franco-Belgian border, between Maulde and Halluin.
 
Hitler meets with the High Command of the Luftwaffe and orders increase the production of munitions, and has abandoned the hope of peace, at least with the British. The Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, German newspapers orders to stop talking about peace prospects.

With respect to Poland, Hitler today named Hans Frank as Governor General of Poland, with absolute control over civil affairs in the districts of Warsaw, Lublin, Radom and Krakow (ie, the Poland that the Reich has not been officially annexed .)
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Hans Frank

Hans Frank is an advocate of the old guard of the NSDAP, who was legal adviser to Hitler and currently chairs the Academy of German Law.

As Governor General of Poland, Frank will report to Himmler, and the first mission is to prepare receiving concentration of Polish Jews in the ghettos of major cities.
 
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