1939
MARCH
- Nazis invades Czechoslovakia without response from the other powers.
MAY
- Women's concentration camp established in Ravensbruck.
JUNE
- Jewish refugees on-board the S.S. St. Louis was denied entry by the United States.
AUGUST
- Hitler and Stalin signed the Hitler-Stalin Pact.
SEPTEMBER
- On the First, German army invades Poland to begin the Second World War
- On the Third, Britain and France Declares War on Germany.
- Stutthof concentration camp was established in Poland.
- On the Seventeenth, Soviet Union invades Eastern Poland.
- Germany successfully annexes Western Poland where the first ghetto is established in Piotrkow.
