Occupied Poland
Lavrenti Beria, chief of the Soviet NKVD (People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs), sets up a Directorate for Prisoners of War and establishes camps for the 240,000 Polish prisoners of war in Soviet custody - 37,000 will become slave laborers.[
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]Poland
- At the end of the Battle of the Bzura River as the German 10th Army has defeated the trapped Polish forces, remnants of the Poznan and Pomorze Armies, about 170,000 men, surrender. The Soviet advance reaches the Hungarian frontier. In the north Vilna is taken. The Soviets link up with the Germans at Brest-Litovsk which is given up to the Soviets according to the provisions of the secret agreement of Aug 23. For practical purposes the Polish campaign is now over. All that remains is mopping-up operations.
- Hitler makes a triumphal entry into Danzig and makes a foreign policy speech that seems to offer conciliation with France and Britain.
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