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The Graf Spree goes on to sink four more Allied merchant vessels during October
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The last valiant gap of Poliish resistance- numbering some 4,500 soldiers under the command of Admiral Unrah- north of Danzig on the Polwysep Helski peninsula falls to the Germans.
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Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France & Britain.
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Germany annexes Western Poland
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Albert Einstein informs FDR of possibilities of atomic bomb
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The Nazis begin to consolidate the Jewish population in Germany's occupied territories. They send Austrian and Czechoslovakian Jews to Poland.
The Soviet Union sends Finland a list of territorial demands, which include a land exchange and the right to establish military bases. -
More than 800 sailors die when a German submarine torpedoes the Royal Oak, a British battleship.
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Nazi require wearing of star of David
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Nazi Hans Frank is appointed governor general of a portion of German-occupied Poland, with his headquarters in Kraków.
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Polish Jewish forced into obligatory work service
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A motion to amend the U.S. Neutrality Act to allow the sale of arms to besieged allies passes the Senate. It will clear the House and be signed by President Franklin Roosevelt on November 4. The change is contingent on the requirement that arms are not transported by American ships.
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Anti-German demonstrations/strikes in Czechoslovakia
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German U boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound & Charles Forbes aboard
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The SS imposes a series of arbitrary and highly restrictive laws on the Poles, including prohibitions against using phone booths and wearing felt hats. Violators can be given the death penalty.
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27 U boats sunk this month
