Battle of the Atlantic

• U-32 sinks the Norwegian steamer Jern (875t) 65 miles west of Skudesnes. Her 14 crewmen are rescued by the Swedish ship Caledonia.
• The Swedish steamer Nyland (3378t) is sunk by U-16 off Kvitsoey, 45 miles southwest of Stavanger. Her survivors are rescued by the Norwegian minelayer Olav Tryggvason.
• U-7 severely damages the Norwegian steamer Solaas (1368t) 25 miles southwest of Lister Light. She sinks the next day.
• The French submarine Poncelet stops the German merchant ship Chemnitz (5522t) and begins escorting her to Casablanca where she is renamed and placed in French service until the fall of France.

Diplomatic Relations

In Moscow, Ribbentrop and Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov put their signatures to the Soviet-German Treaty of Friendship. This ratifies the German-Soviet demarcation line in Poland. The treaty allows the repatriation of ethnic Germans to the Third Reich, and Ukrainians and Belorussians to the Soviet Union, and promises to suppress 'Polish agitation' in both the German and Soviet areas of occupied Poland. The Soviet Union also agrees to deliver to German 300,000 tons of crude oil annually. In addition, Lithuania and Slovakia each receive small areas of Polish territory. A joint Soviet-German declaration states that Germany and the USSR have 'definitely settled the problems arising from the collapse of the Polish state and have thereby created a sure foundation for a lasting peace in Eastern Europe'. Soviet-German Treaty of Friendship

Occupied Poland

At Brest-Litovsk, Red Army and German Army commanders hold a joint victory parade before German forces withdraw west behind the new demarcation line. Relations between the Red Army and the Wehrmacht at this time are genuinely friendly, being based on mutual hostility towards Poland. The parade has been organized by the Wehrmacht's General Heinz Guderian and the Red Army's Semyon Krivoschein. The Germans release no official photographs of the parade, as they wish to seen as strongly anti-communist both at home and abroad. This 1939 enocunter with Guderian, almost cost Krivoschein his life when, in paril 1945, a SMERSH (an abbreviation of its motto: smert' shpionam - death to spies) military counter-intelligence detachment scouring Nazi archives discovered a photograph of Krivoschein and Guderian shaking hands. The Soviet general was questioned but released, probably because he was Jewish and therefore viewed as an unlikely Nazi spy. German-Soviet Military Parade

Poland