13 Oct 1939 | World War II Database

13 Oct 1939

General Wilhelm List was named the commanding officer of the German 12th Army. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]
With the offer for peace rejected by the French on 7 Oct and by the British on 12 Oct, Germany announced that the western powers desired war, and Germany could not be blamed for military action on the German-French border. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

Atlantic Ocean

German pocket battleship Deutschland sank Norwegian freighter Lorentz W. Hansen 420 miles east of Newfoundland. ww2dbase [Main Article | CPC]

Germany

The 1,819-ton neutral Norwegian merchant steamer Kvernaas, captured by the Germans in Sep 1939, was released from Kiel, Germany along with its cargo of 2,585 tons of cellulose. ww2dbase [HM]

Photo(s) dated 13 Oct 1939

Finnish troops posing with anti-aircraft machine guns at a railyard in Helsinki, Finland, 13 Oct 1939

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