1939 January -- June

March 1939

German troops enter Prague and complete the invasion of Czechoslovakia, ignoring the Munich Pact.

June, 1939

Britain declares that it will support Poland

1939 to 1940 Expulsions of 121 765 Poles^[3] from German occupied Pomerania. On Polish places 130 000 Volksdeutsche was settled including 57 000 Germans from East Europe countries: Soviet Union, Bessarabia, Romania and the Baltic states. Deportation was a part of German "Lebensraum" policy ordered by German organisations like Hauptamt Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle and "Resettlement departament" of RKFDV.