| In Moscow... The USSR formally annexes the
occupied Polish territories.
In Berlin... A German-Latvian treaty for the evacuation of
Germans from the Baltic regions is signed.
In the North Atlantic... U-56 hits the British
battleship HMS Nelson, the flagship of the Home Fleet, west of the Orkneys but the
two torpedoes fail
to explode.
In Britain... The first war film of the conflict, The Lion
Has Wings, is premiered, featuring newsreel of a British air attack
on a German fleet.
In London... A government white paper exposes Nazi brutality
towards dissidents and Jews, including the concentration camp system.
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