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1933:    GERMANY: Dr. Joseph Goebbels becomes Minister of Propaganda.

March 13th, 1939 (MONDAY)

GERMANY: In a hastily arranged meeting in Berlin with recently deposed Premier Monsignor Tiso of Czechoslovakia, Chancellor Adolf Hitler claims that, “Czechoslovakia owed it only to Germany that she had not been mutilated further.” The point is that if Hitler can show that Slovakia wants to be independent, then he has just cause for applying pressure on the Czechoslovakian government to give in.

ITALY: The submarine Reginaldo Giuliani is launched. This will later serve in the German navy after the Italian capitulation. (Alex Gordon)

U.S.A.: Tanker (later CVE) Sangamon laid down.
 

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