On 4 January 1939 Raeder advised Hitler that given the Kriegsmarines status as third in regards to allocation of resources and spending behind the Army and the Air Force, the construction targets could not be met within the deadlines given.

In 1939, he premiered Francis Poulenc's Organ Concerto ( the Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani in G minor ); he had advised Poulenc on the registrations of the organ part.

In 1939, Hull advised President Roosevelt to reject the SS St. Louis carrying 936 Jews seeking asylum.

In August 1939, Goerdeler contacted General Walter von Brauchitsch, and advised him if Germany attacked Poland, the result would not be the limited war that Hitler expected, but rather a world war pitting Germany against Britain and France.

Named FDR's White House economist in July 1939, Currie advised on taxation, social security, and the speeding up of peacetime and wartime production plans.

In August 1939 he advised Neville Chamberlain about the formation of a new War Cabinet and the following month become another of Chamberlain's many non-party political appointments when he was made Minister without Portfolio and a member of the War Cabinet.

Bell enjoyed writing risqué lyrics, and in 1939 he was advised that he could make so-called party records with " blue " lyrics, primarily for use in juke boxes in cocktail bars.

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.

Van Vogt's first published SF story, " Black Destroyer " ( Astounding Science Fiction, July 1939 ), was inspired by Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin.

* 1939 Tea for Three ( dramatised by Margery Vosper from the short story Accident )

The ABC was built by Dr. Atanasoff and graduate student Clifford Berry in the basement of the physics building at Iowa State College during 1939 – 42.

* 1939 – The United Kingdom and Poland form a military alliance in which the UK promises to defend Poland in case of invasion by a foreign power.

* 1939 – The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.

Auschwitz had for a long time been a German name for Oświęcim, the town by and around which the camps were located ; the name " Auschwitz " was made the official name again by the Germans after they invaded Poland in September 1939.

His reputation grew in the USA following the critical reception of his design for the Finnish Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair, described by Frank Lloyd Wright as a " work of genius ".

He also illustrated Daphnis and Chloe by Longus ( 1937 ) and Chansons pour elle by Paul Verlaine ( 1939 ).

Alicante was the last city loyal to the Republican government to be occupied by dictator Franco's troops on 1 April 1939, and its harbour saw the last Republican government officials fleeing the country.

He was also deeply influenced by Sapir's death in early 1939.

The Beowulf manuscript was transcribed from an original by two scribes, one of whom wrote the first 1939 lines and a second who wrote the remainder, so the poem up to line 1939 is in one handwriting, whilst the rest of the poem is in another.

In 1939 the companies were acquired by the Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation.

The notation was introduced in 1939 by Paul Dirac and is also known as Dirac notation, though the notation has precursors in Grassmann's use of the notation for his inner products nearly 100 years previously.

But in 1939, Robert Oppenheimer and others predicted that neutron stars above approximately three solar masses ( the Tolman – Oppenheimer – Volkoff limit ) would collapse into black holes for the reasons presented by Chandrasekhar, and concluded that no law of physics was likely to intervene and stop at least some stars from collapsing to black holes.

Despite the term blitzkrieg being coined by journalists during the Invasion of Poland of 1939, historians Mathew Cooper and J. P Harris generally hold that German operations during it were more consistent with more traditional methods.

Many historians now hold the position that blitzkrieg was not a military theory, and the campaigns conducted by the German military in 1939 to circa, 1942 ( with the exception of Operation Barbarossa ) were improvised invasions put together and modified at the last moment and therefore was not a proper military strategy.

It first appeared in September 1939, by a Times newspaper reporter.

Richard Overy pointed out some 23 percent of German output was military by 1939.

Du Boulay retired in 1924 and was replaced by M. B. Williamson who served until his death in 1939.

* 1939 – André Ouellet, French-Canadian politician

In 1939, André Breton coined the derogatory nickname " Avida Dollars ", an anagram for " Salvador Dalí ", and a phonetic rendering of the French avide à dollars, which may be translated as " eager for dollars ".

* " Fata Morgana ", a 1939 poem by André Breton

* French — Alleaume, Ludovic: Poor Pierrot ( 1915 ); Derain, André: Pierrot ( 1923 – 1924 ), Harlequin and Pierrot ( c. 1924 ); Gabain, Ethel: Many works, including Pierrot ( 1916 ), Pierrot's Love-letter ( 1917 ), and Unfaithful Pierrot ( 1919 ); La Fresnaye, Roger de: Study for " Pierrot " ( 1921 ); La Touche, Gaston de: Pierrot's Greeting ( n. d .); Laurens, Henri: Pierrot ( c. 1922 ); Matisse, Henri: The Burial of Pierrot ( 1943 ); Mossa, Gustav Adolf: Pierrot and the Chimera ( 1906 ), Pierrot Takes His Leave ( 1906 ), Pierrot and His Doll ( 1907 ); Picabia, Francis: Pierrot ( early 1930s ); Renoir, Pierre-Auguste: White Pierrot ( 1901 / 1902 ); Rouault, Georges: Many works, including White Pierrot ( 1911 ), Pierrot ( 1920 ), Pierrot ( 1937 – 1938 ), Pierrot ( or Pierrette ) ( 1939 ), Aristocratic Pierrot ( 1942 ), The Wise Pierrot ( 1943 ), Blue Pierrots with Bouquet ( c. 1946 ).

* André Gerschel ( 1939 – 1940 )

There, he rejoined many intellectuals, including the Surrealists, with whom he had been associated since he met André Breton in 1939.

* Chambrun, René de, Mission and Betrayal 1939 – 1945, London: André Deutch Ltd., 1993

* Le héros de la Marne ( André Hugon ), 1939

After 1928, he stayed again in Cassis and Paris, studied shortly with Fernand Léger and became a member of the group Abstraction-Creation in 1933 and the Parisian Surrealists around André Breton in 1936, participating in all its major exhibitions and outreach thereafter, until he travelled to New York in May 1939.

Between 1927 and 1939, he attended the Paris Conservatoire and achieved First Prize in Harmony under André Bloch and First Prize in Fugue with Georges Caussade.

* Oscar Wallenberg ( 1872 – 1939 ), son of André Oscar Wallenberg, naval officer and businessman.

In 1939, she reunited with André Kostelanetz for Tune-Up Time ( CBS ), a show that was produced by radio legend William Spier ( who later married Kay in 1942 ).

* 1939 – Siegfried Fischbacher, German-American magician

* 1872 – Siegfried Flesch, Austrian sabre fencer ( d. 1939 )

On April 1, 1939, Zapf was conscripted and sent to Pirmasens to help reinforce the Siegfried Line against France.

Siegfried Fischbacher ( born June 13, 1939, Rosenheim, Bavaria ) and Roy Horn ( born October 3, 1944, Nordenham, Oldenburg ) were born and raised in Germany.

The Siegfried Line was the subject of a popular British song of 1939 which fitted the mood of the time for the troops marching off to France:

* Hauptmann Siegfried von Eschwege ( 1 December 1939 – 26 August 1940 )