Z24
Destroyer
Laid down 2 January 1939
Adolf
Hitler met Polish Foreign Minister Józef Beck at
Berchtesgaden in southern Germany, on 5 January 1939, and
in a friendly manner, discussed that Danzig was German, and
it was in his interest to one day see it return within German
borders.
On 5 January 1939, The Spanish Civil War, The Republican army
starts a diversionary offensive in Estremadura, the Valsequillo
Offensive.
On 6 January 1939, Naturwissenschaften publishes evidence
that nuclear fission has been achieved by Otto Hahn.
Scharnhorst
Battleship
Commissioned 7 January 1939
Otto
Ciliax
Takes command of the Battleship
Scharnhorst
on 7 January 1939 to
23
September 1939
Lützow
Heavy cruiser
Launched 7 January 1939
M8
Minesweeper
Commissioned 11 January 1939
Z19
Hermann Künne Destroyer
Commissioned 12 January 1939
M5
Minesweeper
Commissioned 14 January 1939
On 15 January 1939, The Spanish Civil War, France once again
allows arms to flow to the Republic.
Seydlitz
Heavy cruiser
Launched 19 January 1939
On 23 January 1939, Dutch War Scare, Admiral Wilhelm
Canaris of the Abwehr leaks misinformation to the effect
that the Wehrmacht plans to invade the Netherlands in February
1939, with the aim of using Dutch airfields to launch a strategic
bombing offensive against United Kingdom. The Dutch War Scare
leads to a major change in British policies towards Europe.
21 January 1939 Czechoslovakian foreign minister visited Adolf
Hitler in Berlin, Germany. Adolf
Hitler demanded Czechoslovakia to decrease the size of
its military, to hand over a large portion of its gold reserves
to be stored in Germany, and to begin excluding Jews in society.
On 26 January 1939,The Spanish Civil War, Barcelona falls
to the Nationalists.
Adolf
Hitler on 27 January 1939, orders Plan Z, a 5 year naval
expansion programme intended to provide for a huge Kriegsmarine
fleet capable of taking on the Royal Navy by 1944. The Kriegsmarine
is given the first priority on the allotment of German economic
resources.
Adolf
Hitler On 30 January 1939 in a speech to the Reichstag
said. Only the warmongers think there will be a war. I think
there will be a long period of peace.
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