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• Through the Swedish businessman Birger Dahlerus, Germany expressed that Germany only desired Danzig and a small section of the Polish Corridor, while a plebiscite should be held in the near future to determine the fate of the remainder of the Polish Corridor. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Adolf Hitler summoned the three leading representatives of the German armed forces, Walther von Brauchitsch, Hermann Göring, and Erich Raeder together with senior Army commanders to his mountain villa at Obersalzberg in southern Germany, where he announced the details of the recently-signed Soviet-German non-aggression pact, the plan to isolate and destroy Poland, and the formation of a buffer state in conquered Poland against the Soviet Union. ww2dbase [Main Article | AC]

• A Polish destroyer squadron was evacuated to the United Kingdom as the invasion from Germany seemed imminent. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

• Georgy Zhukov was made a Hero of the Soviet Union for the first time and was awarded the Order of Lenin for the second time. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

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