May 6th, 1939 (SATURDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: Graham Greene's play The Great Jowett is broadcast on BBC radio.
"Two warships escort Britain's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on a visit to Canada. Each ship carries about 15 million Pounds Sterling in gold for safekeeping in Canada."
GERMANY:
The Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Church
Life opens in Eisenach under the academic Grundmann.
At the inaugural speech,
Grundmann, a professor of New Testament at the University of Jena, spoke of the
need to rid Protestantism of its connections to Judaism, as Martin Luther had
rid Protestantism of Catholicism. The institute's goal, from its very inception,
was to "purify" Protestantism, the Bible, and especially Jesus. Protestant
Christianity was to be redefined as an Aryan religion with Jesus as the first
man to battle the "pernicious" influence of the Jews. (Citation:
Beth A. Griech-Polelle. Review of Heschel, Susannah, _The Aryan Jesus: Christian
Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany_. H-German, H-Net Reviews. October,
2009. URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=25673)
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U-53 is launched.
U.S.A.: Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman arrives in New York.