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1939A

By Low, 'The Evening Standard', 1939

"Today, I will once more be a prophet: if the international Jewish
financiers in and outside Europe should in plunging the nations
once more into a world war, then the results will not be the Bolshevising
of the earth and thus the victory of Jewry, but the annihilation of the
Jewish race in Europe!"

Adolf Hitler - Speech to the Reichstag - 30th January, 1939

1 September 1939

Start of World War II -
Hitler Invades Poland

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1939AA

By John Collins, The Gazeeet McCord Museum, Canada, 1939

Caption: Where will he grab next?

1939J
1939E

By Low, 'The Evening Standard', March 8, 1939

Malcolm MacDonald, the British Colonial Secretary, issues the 'white paper'. Its' provisions were
opposed by both the Jews and Arabs in Palestine.

1939BB

By John Collins, The Gazette McCord Museum, Canada, 1939

Caption: Abused on both sides.

1939K

By Talbot Ellison, 'Newcastle Daily Chronicle', March 1939

Illegal Jewish imigration into Palestine was demonstrated by Malcome MacDonald in the House.

1939F

By Kukryniksy, for 'Kronodil', USSR, April 1939

On April 7, 1939, Italian troops invade Albania.

1939G

By Buriko (Antonio Burattino), from "Il 420', Italy, May 22, 1939

'The Pact of Steel'
A Military alliance between Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.

1939B

By Orr, 'Chicago Tribune', June 1939

1939D

This Cartoon appeared in the 'New York Daily Mirror' on June 6, 1939, while
the U.S.S. St. Louis, with over 900 German Jewish refugees aboard,
hovered off the coast of Florida. The Roosevelt administration refused to let
the refugees enter the United States.

Editorial titled: "Ashamed!"

1939L

By Herblock, 'NEA', August 25, 1939

Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed a "Non-Aggression Pact" (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact)

1939N

August 29, 1939, Chaim Weizmann informs England that Palestine Jews will fight in WWII

1939D

By Low, from 'The Evening Standard', September 20, 1939

The Nazi - Soviet Pact (1939)

1939H

By Ralph Soupault, from 'Gringoire', France, September 1939

1939I

By Strube, 'Daily Express', October 20, 1939

1939M

By Low, 'The Evening Standard', November 2, 1939

events '39

War!

Poland's Fate

cinema '39

Gone With the Wind

tinsletown

The Rules of the Game

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