Early in 1939, Odilo Globocnik, the Gauleiter of Vienna, established SS headquarters for all of Poland.

* 1939 – DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics # 27 ; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time.

Nin left Paris in the late summer of 1939, when residents from overseas were urged to leave France due to the upcoming war and returned to New York City with Guiler ( who was, on his own wish, all but edited out of her diaries published in her lifetime and whose role in her life is therefore difficult to gauge ).

In 1939 – 40, 45 percent of the army was 40 years old, and 50 percent of all the soldiers had just a few weeks training.

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.

There is also a broader definition, as described by Marc Bloch ( 1939 ), that includes not only warrior nobility but all three estates of the realm: the nobility, the clerics, and the peasantry bonds of manorialism ; this is sometimes referred to as a " feudal society ".

Since at least the 1960s, when Marc Bloch's Feudal Society ( 1939 ) was first translated into English in 1961, many medieval historians have included a broader social aspect that includes not only the nobility but all three estates of the realm, adding the peasantry bonds of manorialism and the estates of the Church ; this is sometimes referred to as " feudal society " since it encompasses all members of society into the feudal system.

From a private letter from journalist Susan Myrick to Margaret Mitchell in February 1939: " George finally told me all about it.

Gardner's dissatisfaction with the group grew, particularly when in 1939, one of the group's leaders sent a letter out to all members in which she stated that war would not come.

After forming a pact with the Soviet Union in 1939, Hitler's blitzkrieg swept nearly all of Western Europe.

Yellow badge required to be worn by all Jews in Germany and occupied countries beginning in 1939.

At first Germany's military moves were brilliantly successful, as in the " blitzkrieg " invasions of Poland ( 1939 ), Norway ( 1940 ), the Low Countries ( 1940 ), and above all the stunningly successful invasion and quick conquest of France in 1940.

Dewey's most significant writings were " The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology " ( 1896 ), a critique of a standard psychological concept and the basis of all his further work ; Democracy and Education ( 1916 ), his celebrated work on progressive education ; Human Nature and Conduct ( 1922 ), a study of the function of habit in human behavior ; The Public and its Problems ( 1927 ), a defense of democracy written in response to Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public ( 1925 ); Experience and Nature ( 1925 ), Dewey's most " metaphysical " statement ; Art as Experience ( 1934 ), Dewey's major work on aesthetics ; A Common Faith ( 1934 ), a humanistic study of religion originally delivered as the Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale ; Logic: The Theory of Inquiry ( 1938 ), a statement of Dewey's unusual conception of logic ; Freedom and Culture ( 1939 ), a political work examining the roots of fascism ; and Knowing and the Known ( 1949 ), a book written in conjunction with Arthur F. Bentley that systematically outlines the concept of trans-action, which is central to his other works.

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 ).

During the summer of 1939, Ribbentrop sabotaged all efforts at a peaceful solution to the Danzig dispute, leading the American historian Gerhard Weinberg to comment that " perhaps Chamberlain's haggard appearance did him more credit than Ribbentrop's beaming smile " as the countdown to a war that would kill millions inexorably gathered pace.

There he repeated in a different form all that he had already said, for all the world as if he had a gramophone fixed in his brain ... When I took leave, he subjected me to an interminable handshake, meanwhile fixing his cold blue eyes on mine, and repeating almost word for word what he said to me on arrival ... I felt I should never be able to establish any human contact with this man " In early June 1940, when Mussolini informed Hitler that he at long last would enter the war on 10 June 1940, Hitler was most dismissive, in private calling Mussolini a cowardly opportunist who broke the terms of the Pact of Steel in September 1939 when the going looked rough, and was only entering the war in June 1940 after it was clear that France was beaten and it appeared that Britain would soon make peace.

The historic drink can be served in an ice-frosted silver julep cup, but most Churchill Downs patrons sip theirs from souvenir glasses ( first offered in 1939 and available in revised form each year since ) printed with all previous Derby winners.

This film broke all box office records and remained the highest grossing film ever produced until 1939.

His films, Tractor Drivers ( 1939 ), The Swineherd and the Shepherd ( 1941 ), and his most famous, Cossacks of the Kuban ( 1949 ) all starred his wife, Marina Ladynina.

After the German invasion of Poland in 1939 the family holdings in that country were gone, and all income from there ceased.

In the final moments of August 1939 all remains of political and cultural life of Polish minority was eradicated by Nazis, with imprisonment of Polish activists and liquidation of Polish institutions.

In 1939, he starred on Broadway in the musical Too Many Girls.

Early films, including those from the silent era, which feature the station include Traffic in Souls ( 1913 ), which starred Matt Moore ; The Yellow Passport ( 1916 ), starring Clara Kimball Young ; My Boy ( 1921 ), starring Jackie Coogan ; Frank Capra's The Strong Man ( 1926 ), starring Harry Langdon ; We Americans ( 1928 ), starring John Boles ; The Mating Call ( film ), 1928, co-starring Thomas Meighan and Renée Adorée ; Ellis Island ( 1936 ), starring Donald Cook ; Paddy O ' Day ( 1936 ), starring Jane Withers ; Gateway ( 1938 ), starring Don Ameche ; Exile Express ( 1939 ), which starred Anna Sten ; I, Jane Doe ( 1948 ), starring Ruth Hussey and Vera Ralston, and Gambling House ( 1951 ), starring Victor Mature

That year, he also starred in the dual roles of the villainous King Louis XIV and his secret, sympathetic twin brother Philippe in Randall Wallace's The Man in the Iron Mask, based on the same-titled 1939 film.

In 1939, he co-starred with Ginger Rogers in the RKO comedy Bachelor Mother, and starred as the eponymous gentleman safe-cracker in Raffles.

Tallulah Bankhead starred as Regina Giddens, when the play premiered on February 15, 1939 at the National Theatre.

During this period, he also starred with Basil Rathbone in Tower of London ( 1939 ).

Goofy next starred at his first solo cartoon Goofy and Wilbur directed by Dick Huemer, first released on March 17, 1939.

Howard starred with Ingrid Bergman in Intermezzo ( 1939 ) and Norma Shearer in a film version of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ( 1936 ).

De Havilland was good friends with Bette Davis with whom she starred in Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte ( 1964 ), The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex ( 1939 ), It's Love I'm After ( 1937 ), and In This Our Life ( 1942 ).

The film version, released in 1939, starred Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney and was directed by Busby Berkeley.

Redgrave also starred in The Stars Look Down ( 1939 ), with James Mason in the film of Robert Ardrey's play Thunder Rock ( 1942 ), and in the ventriloquist's dummy episode of the Ealing compendium film Dead of Night ( 1945 ).

He guest starred as himself on October 20 in the episode " Musicale " of ABC's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, a sitcom starring Fess Parker, based on the 1939 Frank Capra film.

Shortly after making this film, Scott portrayed Wyatt Earp in Frontier Marshal ( 1939 ) and, for Universal, starred with Kay Francis in When the Daltons Rode ( 1940 ).

But Gielgud was best known for directing productions in which he also starred, including his greatest commercial success Richard of Bordeaux ( 1933 ), his definitive production of The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1939, 1942, 1947 ), Medea with Judith Anderson's Tony Award-winning performance of the title role with Gielgud supporting her as Jason ( 1947 ), The Lady's Not for Burning ( 1949 ) that won Richard Burton his first notoriety as an actor, and Ivanov ( 1965 ).

But many believed that his greatest successes were in Shakespearean productions in which he both directed and starred, especially Romeo and Juliet ( 1935 ), Richard II ( 1937, 1953 ), King Lear ( 1950, 1955 ), Much Ado About Nothing ( 1952, 1955, 1959 ) and his signature role of Hamlet ( 1934, 1939, 1945 ).

In 1939, Gene Krupa and his Orchestra appeared in the Paramount movie Some Like It Hot, which starred Bob Hope and Shirley Ross, performing the songs " Blue Rhythm Fantasy " and " The Lady's in Love with You ".

Their first American film was Nurse Edith Cavell ( 1939 ), a remake of Dawn, a Wilcox silent that starred Sybil Thorndike.

There she starred in Jerome Kern's Music in the Air ( 1933 ) and then went on to her best known singing roles as the heroine of three Ivor Novello operettas, Glamorous Night ( 1935 ), The Dancing Years ( 1939 ) and Arc de Triomphe ( 1943 ).

At the 1939 New York World's Fair, Billy Rose's Aquacade starred Olympian Eleanor Holm in what the fair program called " a brilliant girl show of spectacular size and content ".

She starred in " Sally Rand's Nude Ranch " at the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco in 1939 and 1940.

The 1939 film version was directed by George Cukor and starred Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford.

Later in the decade, he was the first actor to play " Dr. Kildare ", in the film Internes Can't Take Money ( 1937 ), and he starred in two large-scale Westerns, Wells Fargo ( 1937 ) with his wife Frances Dee, and Cecil B. DeMille's Union Pacific ( 1939 ).

From 1937 to 1939, he starred as " The Octopus " in the " Speed Gibson " adventure series.