John Dewey and English Education ( 1895 – 1939 ).

After his graduation from Yale in 1939, Dewey worked as a journalist for the Chicago Daily News in its Paris bureau.

* John Dewey, Theory of valuation, 1939, vol. 2 n. 4

* John Dewey ( 1939 );

* John Dewey: An Intellectual Portrait, 1939.

The film revolves around the fate of five people-singer Carolyn Crosson, her boyfriend Gilbert London, child actress Sally Shine ( who is modeled after child actress Shirley Temple ), her nanny Emeline Partridge, and bellhop Dewey Todd, who were about to attend a party at the Hollywood Tower Hotel in 1939 when a bolt of lightning struck the elevator they were in, causing them to vanish.

He was prosecuted under the National Registration Act 1939, convicted and fined 10 shillings.

At a time when Nazi Germany was gaining more influence in Romania, Nicolae Malaxa collaborated with Hermann Göring in confiscating the assets of the Jewish Auschnitt ( who had been arrested and prosecuted on false charges in September 1939 ), and subsequently placed his industrial empire in the service of the Reichswerke during World War II.

Symbolically, Marian Anderson ( a noted opera singer of her day ) sang a rendition of " America the Beautiful " on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939 after being refused use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution because of her skin color.

* 1939 – William Least Heat-Moon, American author

* 1939 – Edward Patten, American singer-songwriter and producer ( Gladys Knight & the Pips ) ( d. 2005 )

* 1939 – Benjamin Barber, American theorist

* 1939 – Wes Craven, American director

* 1939 – John W. Snow, American politician, 73rd United States Secretary of the Treasury

* 1984 – Marvin Gaye, American singer ( The Moonglows ) ( b. 1939 )

* 2008 – Skip Caray, American sportscaster ( b. 1939 )

* 1939 – Anjanette Comer, American actress

* 1939 – Alexander Watson, American ambassador and diplomat

* 1939 – Phil Balsley, American singer-songwriter ( The Statler Brothers )

* 1939 – Billy Joe Shaver, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1939 – Michael D. Antonovich, American politician

* 1939 – Skip Caray, American sportscaster ( d. 2008 )

* 1939 – George Hamilton, American actor

* 1939 – James Burton, American guitarist ( TCB Band )

* 1939 – Harold Reid, American singer-songwriter ( The Statler Brothers )

* 1939 – Clarence Williams III, American actor

* 1939 – John Badham, American director

* 1939 – Marvin Gaye, American singer ( The Moonglows ) ( d. 1984 )

* 1939 – Anthony Lake, American political figure

* 1939 – Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial, after being denied the right to sing at the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall.

* 1939 – Joel Schumacher, American director

* 1939 – Elizabeth Ashley, American actress

* 1939 – Thomas J. Moyer, American judge

* 1939 – Nazi Germany mounts a staged attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day thus starting World War II in Europe.

Relations further deteriorated when, in January 1948, the U. S. State Department also published a collection of documents titled Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939 – 1941: Documents from the Archives of The German Foreign Office, which contained documents recovered from the Foreign Office of Nazi Germany revealing Soviet conversations with Germany regarding the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, including its secret protocol dividing eastern Europe, the 1939 German-Soviet Commercial Agreement, and discussions of the Soviet Union potentially becoming the fourth Axis Power.

Following the downfall of Czechoslovakia and occupation of its Czech part by Nazi Germany in 1939, Czechoslovak units and formations served with the Polish Army ( Czechoslovak Legion ), the French Army, the Royal Air Force, the British Army ( the 1st Czechoslovak Armoured Brigade ), and the Red Army ( I Corps ).

The Holocaust: Nazi Germany | Nazi German extermination and concentration camps in Occupation of Poland ( 1939 – 1945 ) | occupied Poland.

Extermination camps ( or death camps ) were camps built by Nazi Germany during the Second World War ( 1939 – 45 ) to systematically kill millions of people by gassing and extreme work under starvation conditions.

Most Holocaust historians identify six German Nazi extermination camps, all in occupied Poland ; two of them, Chełmno and the Auschwitz II, in the western Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany ( October 1939 ), four in the General Government area.

* 1939 – Beate Klarsfeld, German Nazi hunter

Finland's foreign politics before this deal had been varied: independence from Imperial Russia with support of Imperial Germany in 1917 ; participation in the Russian Civil War ( without official declaration of war ) alongside the Triple Entente 1918 – 1920 ; a non-ratified alliance with Poland in 1922 ; association with the neutralist and democratic Scandinavian countries in the 1930s ended by the Winter War ( 1939 ); and finally in 1940, a rapprochement with Nazi Germany, the only power able to protect Finland against the expansionist Soviet Union, leading to the Continuation War in 1941.

On 27 September 1939, the security and police agencies of Nazi Germany — with the exception of the Orpo — were consolidated into the Reich Main Security Office ( RSHA ), headed by Heydrich.

The German Nazi invasion of 1939 put an end to it.

Following the German invasion of 1939, Greater Poland was incorporated into Nazi Germany, becoming the province called Reichsgau Posen, later Reichsgau Wartheland ( Warthe being the German name for the Warta river ).

A hagiographic account of Koch's career can be found in the 1939 Nazi propaganda film Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes ( The fighter against death ), directed by Hans Steinhoff and starring Emil Jannings as Koch.

On August 23, 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov – Ribbentrop non-aggression pact, which secretly provided for the dismemberment of Poland into Nazi and Soviet-controlled zones.

In August 1939, after Stalin's attempts to establish an Anglo-Franco-Soviet Alliance failed, Stalin entered into a pact with Nazi Germany that divided their influence in Eastern Europe and allowed the USSR to regain some of its lost territories.

After a failed attempt to sign an anti-German military alliance with France and Britain and talks with Germany regarding a potential political deal, on 23 August 1939, the Soviet Union entered into a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, negotiated by Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.

During all this time, Ribbentrop feuded with various other Nazi leaders ; at one point in August 1939 an armed clash took place between supporters of Ribbentrop and those of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels over the control of a radio station in Berlin that was meant to broadcast German propaganda abroad ( Goebbels claimed exclusive control of all propaganda both at home and abroad whereas Ribbentrop asserted a claim to monopolize all German propaganda abroad ).

Ribbentrop, for his part, because of his status as the Nazi British expert, resolved Hitler's dilemma by supporting the anti-British line and by repeatedly advising Hitler that Britain would not go to war for Poland in 1939.

Much of his early work was financed by his family and commerce, but after 1939 he was given resources by the Nazi German government.

The Soldau concentration camp was established in Winter 1939, here 13, 000 people have been murdered by the Nazi German state during the war.

The Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union, also known as the Nazi – Soviet Pact and the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact ( after its chief architects, Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop ) was a non-aggression pact, signed in Moscow in the late hours of 23 August 1939, at the height of the Nomonhan fighting in the far east between the Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan.

On 31 March 1939, in response to Nazi Germany's defiance of the Munich Agreement and occupation of Czechoslovakia, the United Kingdom pledged the support of itself and France to guarantee the independence of Poland, Belgium, Romania, Greece, and Turkey.

While active collaboration between Nazi Germany and Soviet Union caused great shock in western Europe and amongst communists opposed to Germany, on 1 October 1939, Winston Churchill declared that the Russian armies acted for the safety of Russia against " the Nazi menace.