Wednesday, October 4, 1939 - Soviets to Communize eastern Poland

[Bootie]

In Occupied Poland...
Nikita Krushchev (Secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Party) announces the "Communisation" of eastern Poland.

Nikita Krushchev

In Germany...
The Reichstag is summoned to meet on Friday, October 6th.

In Ireland...
U-35 lands the 28-man crew of the torpedoed Greek transport, SS Diamantis, on the Kerry coast, in the southwest.

U-35

US paper report

In Britain...
Members of the Glamorgan Agricultural Committee met to voice concerns about "gossip and goings-on" between Land Army girls and soldiers billeted around the farms in the area. A strict 9 o'clock curfew was urged for the girls, aged 17 to 40. Alderman David Davis defended the women, saying: "They are good-looking English girls with the right spirit. Good girls do not need looking after."

 

[Louis]

On October 4, 1939 Hitler pardoned all military personnel who had been involved in war crimes in Poland.-

Wehrmacht units killed thousands of Polish civilians during the September 1939 campaign through executions and the terror bombing of cities. Any act of defiance was met with the most ruthless violence, although the Army leadership did seek to discourage so-called "wild" shootings" where Wehrmach troops would indiscriminately shoot all Poles on their own initiative. Court martial proceedings were begun against some of the junior officers who had led these shootings.-

War crimes of the Wehrmacht - en.wikipedia