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An advancing German infantry detachment meet Polish prisoners who carry their wounded comrades on stretchers to the first aid station, Sept. 6, 1939....

A German soldier, member of a tank corps, gives a cigarette to a Polish prisoner of war, somewhere on the Eastern Front, Sept. 5, 1939. (AP Photo)

Polish men and women are shown as they worked frantically to dig trenches in the capital city of Warsaw, Sept. 1, 1939 as the crisis with Germany reac...

This is a view of the center of Warsaw, looking out over the railway station square, Sept. 1, 1939. German warplanes swooped over the city this aftern...

Burning Polish oil and gas tanks are set aflame by the bombardment of German ship at Westerplatte, Sept. 1, 1939. (AP Photo)

The heroic defenders of the Polish capital of Warsaw, shown Sept. 1939, led by a mounted officer, march to surrender to the Germans who besieged them...

A contingent of the SS Heinwehr, Danzig's newly-created Home Defense Corps, is shown rolling toward the Polish border as villagers watch the preparati...

Image shows a general view of the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany, during the summer solstice celebrations June 21, 1939. The flaming woodpile is s...

King George VI, right, stands in reverence before the grave of George Washington after laying a wreath there on a visit with Queen Elizabeth, with par...

King George VI, right, stands in reverence before the grave of George Washington after laying a wreath there on a visit with Queen Elizabeth, with par...

German observation squad on the look-out on the roof-top platform in Poland, on April 9, 1939. (AP Photo)

The new military governor of prague, General Geyr Von Schweppenburg arrives for a parade of his troops through Prague, Czechoslovakia, March 19, 1939....

Nazi flags and emblems decorate the street in Vienna, Austria, March 17, 1939, in preparation for the arrival of German Chancellor Adolf Hitler. (AP P...

Thousands of native Germans have gathered in Tilsit March 1939 to cross over the Koenigin Luise Bruecke (Queen Luise Bridge) to the

This is an aerial view of Alcatraz Island, which houses Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, shown 1939. (AP Photo)

German soldiers hoisting the German army flag, Jan. 19, 1939 in front of the City Hall of Gdynia, Poland, the seat of the civil administration. (AP Ph...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt always has time to pet Fala, his Scottish terrier, seen here in 1939. (AP Photo)

"Reichsschule" (Empire's School) instructor looks over the shoulder of a German teenager girl in her uniform taking down a message in Germany, 1939....

This is an aerial view of Alcatraz Island, which houses Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in San Francisco Bay, shown 1939. (AP Photo)

In this photo released by Pressens Bild, Germans erect a defense wall in Poland near the German border, using the labor of prisoners of war, 1939. (AP...

When Cuba's

Col. Fulgencio Batista, chief of Cuba's army, after being feted in Washington, was received in New York, Nov. 15, 1938, by Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia...

Marshall Goldberg, Pitt???s mighty fullback. Winced with pain from an injured leg as he left the Pitt-Carnegie tech game in the first quarter at Pitts...

Babe Ruth took off his coat to try a couple of swings with the cesta during attendance at a jai-alai match in New York City on Oct. 21, 1938. The g...

German troops were marching into the Nov. 2w Sudeten zone in accordance with the recent four power agreement, Oct. 3, 1938. There was no hitch, it is...

The third Reich began marching into Friedland, Oct. 2, 1938, in zone No. 211, to the wild cheers of the Sudeten Populace. Here the van of the army mov...

A big demonstration by Poles urging immediate abolition of the present boundary between Poland and Czecho-Silesia was held in the south-west Poland-Cz...

Thousands of steel helmeted Black SS

With a tank parade of the German

With a parade of the German Air Force flying over the Zeppelinfeld (Zeppelin Field) the Reichsparteitag (Empire Party Meeting) came to an end in Nurem...

Troops of Nazi-German Wehrmacht cross Czech border near Friedland almost 30 years ago-on Oct. 10 1938- after Munich agreement forced Czech to give Sud...

Image shows hundreds of torch bearing SA men

German movie star Heinrich George, right, is pictured standing next to Mrs. Goebbels, as he chats with Dr. Joseph Goebbels, center, and Dr. Robert Ley...

Two unidentified children of sharecroppers pose, May 25, 1938, Vincent, Ark. Officials of the Southern Farmers' Union, say the children can't go in fo...

This is a view of Alcatraz Island, seen May 23, 1938 in San Francisco Bay. (AP Photo)

Flags of the National Socialists with their Swastika emblems decorate the crowded

German Amassador to the Court of St. James Joachim Von Ribbentrop, left, on the steps of the German Embassy in London, England, March 13, 1938, as he...

German Minister of Propoganda Dr. Joseph Goebbels reads a proclomation over the radio for Chancellor Adolf Hitler to the German people from Berlin, Ge...

One of the decorated streets in Berlin, Germany, March 12, 1938, to celebrate the moving of German troops over the border into Austria. (AP Photo)

A policeman is surrounded by enthusiastic Nazis, in Vienna, Austria, March 11, 1938, after the Austrian Chancellor Kurt Von Scuschnigg had resigned. (...

Blazing torches are held triumphantly aloft by entusiastic Nazis, in Vienna, Austria, March 11, 1938, after the Austrian Chancellor Kurt Von Scuschnig...

Ted Klusewski infielder hit. 100 with Cincinnati Reds and. 377 with Memphis in 1947 shown in March 1938 . (AP Photo)

Associated Press photographer Bede Irvin of Detroit is shown, Feb. 16, 1938. (AP Photo)

Oliver S. Gramling of the Associated Press Pittsburgh staff is shown Dec. 13, 1937. (AP Photo)

This Notre Dame play started well enough with Stevenson (32) taking the ball from Burnell (40) but it wound up with Stevenson throwing a pass which wa...

His preparatory workout for golf battle for charity he will wage, with John Montague, Hollywood's links star, at Fresh Meadow course in New York on No...

A group of soldiers is seen arriving at the military camp in Nuremberg, September 5, 1937. For the upcoming annual

Oliver S. Gramling of the Associated Press Pittsburgh staff is shown in Sept. 1937. (AP Photo)

Flags of the National Socialists with their Swastika emblems decorate the avenue

Image shows an interior view of the Jahrhunderthalle (Century Hall) in the the Silesian town Breslau, Eastern Germany, July 28, 1937, crowded with sev...