7 May 1939
- German Generals Rundstedt, Manstein, and other General Staff members presented to Hitler an invasion plan for Danzig and Poland. ww2dbase [Invasion of Poland | CPC]
- Japanese troops captured Suizhou and Zaoyang in Hubei Province, China. ww2dbase [Battle of Suixian-Zaoyang | Suizhou, Hubei | CPC]
- The French ambassador in Berlin, Germany dispatched a warning to French leadership of deteriorating German-Polish relations. ww2dbase [The Danzig Crisis | Berlin | CPC]
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