Tuesday, January 16, 1940 - Hitler cancels plans for western offensive

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In Germany ... Hitler decides to cancel the German attack in the west until the spring. The possible compromising of the plan for the attack at Mechelen on January 10th and the continuing bad weather are the principal reasons.

In France... Sixty-six Communist members are ejected from the Chamber of Deputies.

In Angers... A report which vividly describes Nazi atrocities in Poland is presented to the Polish government-in-exile in France. It contains graphic accounts of public executions, forced labor, looting and hostage-taking on a vast scale. In Poznan, for example, the German occupation forces are said to have shot 5000 Poles. Thousands more are being held in makeshift concentration camps. Mass arrests of prominent Poles are commonplace and Germans are said to take precedence over Poles for food, clothes and housing. The Jews and Gypsies in Nazi-occupied Poland are said to suffer brutal persecution and indignities.
 
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