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Subject: 50 Years Ago : Thursday, 21 September, 1939
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Thursday, 21 September, 1939


Artillery and air attacks on Warsaw increase in intensity.

Rumanian Prime Minister Calinescu is assassinated by members of
the "Iron Guard", a fascist organization.  The assassins are caught
and executed in public.

The "Heydrich plan" is implemented; 60,000 Jews from Danzig and western
Poland are to be relocated to ghettoes in central Poland.


References:
C.Argyle, _Chronology of World War II_
J. Piekalkiewicz, _Tank War 1939-1940_
R.Dupuy and T.Dupuy, _The Encyclopedia of Military History_

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"At the time, we thought the intervention of Russia towards the end of
the campaign was quite superfluous, not to speak of the friction 
very soon caused by Russian fighters firing on aircraft of my Command"
- Field-Marshal Albert Kesselring, _Memoirs_