military@cbnews.att.com (09/20/89)
Thursday, 21 September, 1939 Artillery and air attacks on Warsaw increase in intensity. Rumanian Prime Minister Calinescu is assassinated by members of the "Iron Guard", a fascist organization. The assassins are caught and executed in public. The "Heydrich plan" is implemented; 60,000 Jews from Danzig and western Poland are to be relocated to ghettoes in central Poland. References: C.Argyle, _Chronology of World War II_ J. Piekalkiewicz, _Tank War 1939-1940_ R.Dupuy and T.Dupuy, _The Encyclopedia of Military History_ -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@cbnews.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "At the time, we thought the intervention of Russia towards the end of the campaign was quite superfluous, not to speak of the friction very soon caused by Russian fighters firing on aircraft of my Command" - Field-Marshal Albert Kesselring, _Memoirs_