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August September October
1 September Live broadcast
2 September Live broadcast
3 September Live broadcast
4 September
Steamship "Athenia" had been torpedoed
Battle for Czestochowa
battle for the Corridor
5 September
Molotov: Soviet Union does not want to be dragged into that war
German troops occupy Częstochowa
Brecht: Poland is not fighting at all
6 September
First air raid warning in the UK
The French put up placards on the Western front: ‘We won’t shoot’
The fall of Cracow
7 September
Intense bomb attack on Łuków
The french military command claims to have made contact with the enemy in the vicinity of Saarbrucke
Chaim Kalpan: There is no bread!
8 September
Hitler: Propaganda is an important instrument of leadership
Comintern: This war is an unjust, imperialist war
Hollingworth: Foreign embassies are cut off from everything in Poland
9 September
Outbreak of battle for Warsaw
Fedor von Bock: The enemy has little artillery
Grafstrom: It is a matter of the shortest time before the city falls
10 September
Barricades erected in Warsaw
First signs of German occupation
11 September
Harrison Forman: Jews will suffer most
Appeal of president Starzynski
Polish government evacuates from Luck
12 September
Defenders' Units organised in Warsaw
Some institutions are returning to Warsaw
13 September
John Colville: Our comparative inactivity on the Western Front is causing general uneasiness
Jewish shops are open during Rosh Hashanah
14 September
Partial mobilisation in the USSR
Jean-Paul Sartre: War is a form of socialism
15 September
Russia may attack Poland
The ring is closed around Brest on the east bank of the Bug
16 September
Hitler's appeal to citizens of Warsaw
French troops are seeking to conquer observation points
17 September Live broadcast
18 September
Soviet troops have entered Poland
The demarcation line is installed between Russian and German troops
The city of Lwow is surrounded
19 September
Polish Radio: We have strong forces
Daniel Barlone: Activity has slowed down, no more artillery
Bertolt Brecht: The Soviet invasion of Poland proceeded in a napoleonic form
20 September
British ship "Courageous" was torpedoed
Two bomb explosions in Berlin
Arkady Mankov: It is already the third company commander in this short period
21 September
Hitler visits the Westerplatte
Vice President Klimecki is arrested
22 September
Triumphant reports about the end of the Polish campaign
Alexander Polonius: Is Warsaw sacrifice in vain?
Polish Radio: Warsaw is a major center of polish resistance
23 September
Stefan Starszynski: I wanted Warsaw to be great
New ration cards for food introduced in Germany
Sigmund Freud has passed away
24 September
Joseph Goebbels press-conference
Molotov: The Soviet Union needs to expand its security system
25 September
Polish government left the country
Mayor of Warsaw: I call on all citizens to work together
26 September
Stefan Starzynski: Warsaw is on fire
Churchill: The war on sea opened with some intensity
Edouard Daladier: We make war because we do not want France to be enslaved
27 September
Ribbentrop visits Moscow
If Warsaw doesn’t surrender, it will be destroyed
28 September
Stalin: Soviet people will come to the aid of Germany
Ribbentrop attends Bolshoy Ballet
Today 29 September
Soviet-German treaty signed in Moscow
"The truce expires at noon and the Germans are in their right to enter the city"
30 September