October 1940

the éphéméride | all on October and 1940.

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  • October: Publication of the first numbers of the newspapers of French resistance such Pantagruel , the Free University , Our Right , Free France , the French revolution , In Captivity , the Free man , in particular.

  • October 5th:

    • Arrest by the Parisian police force of 300 Communists.
  • October 7th:

    • At the request of the marshal Ion Antonescu become Head of the Rumanian State after the abdication of the king Carol II, Hitler sends to the Rumanian units of the Army and aviation with mission of organizing the Rumanian army.
    • the evacuation of the Polish soldiers interned in Romania is stopped.
  • October 15th

    • Birth of the future French resistance network “Alliance”.
  • October 18th:

    • Publication with the Official journal French of the “Statute of the Jews”.
  • October 28th:

    • the Italy poses an ultimatum with the Greece - Metaxas, Greek the Prime Minister, answers with the simple word “ Okhi! ” (“not! ”);
    • the Italian forces invade the Greece.
  • October 30th:

    • Pétain announces the Collaboration France with Germany. : “I enter today the way of collaboration”.
  • October 31st:

    • fine of the Bataille of England (the Germans lost: 1733 planes, the United Kingdom 915).

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