Jens Walter

Source: Image 35 of Evening star (Washington, D.C.), November 12, 1939
(1939, November 12) Evening Star. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, loc.gov/item/sn83045....

OTD Hitler-Stalin-Pact
"Russia exerts her influence in the Baltic states without opposition from any of the major powers who up to now have always frustrated her aims in that direction. Finland alone met the Soviet demands with a certain resistance."
November 12, 1939 Evening Star

Source: Image 3 of The Washington daily news (Washington, D.C.), November 1, 1939
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OTD Hitler-Stalin-Pact "Russian demands on Finland, as outlined yesterday by Soviet Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov in a speech before the Soviet Supreme Council, were described in all quarters here today as “unacceptable.” The Washington daily news (Washington, D.C.) Nov 1, 1939

OTD Hitler-Stalin-Pact "Russian demands on Finland, as outlined yesterday by Soviet Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov in a speech before the Soviet Supreme Council, were described in all quarters here today as “unacceptable.”
The Washington daily news (Washington, D.C.) Nov 1, 1939

OTD Hitler-Stalin-Pact "Finland Threatened By Soviet Russia - Scandinavia Cringes At Russ Threat - Molotoff's Warning To Finland Cast Gloom on Neighbor States" The daily Alaska empire (Juneau, Alaska), November 1, 1939

OTD Hitler-Stalin-Pact
"Finland Threatened By Soviet Russia - Scandinavia Cringes At Russ Threat - Molotoff's Warning To Finland Cast Gloom on Neighbor States"
The daily Alaska empire (Juneau, Alaska), November 1, 1939
loc.gov/resource/sn8...

30.10.1939 Hufvudstadsbladet no 293, s. 1 -. Hufvudstadsbladet Ab. Sanomalehti. Kansalliskirjaston digitaaliset aineistot

Source: Hufvudstadsbladet, 30.10.1939, no. 293, p. 1
digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/sanomalehti/...
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Cited:31.10.2025

Hufvudstadsbladet, 30.10.1939, no. 293, p. 1 https://digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/sanomalehti/binding/2213345?page=1 National Library's Digital Collections Cited:31.10.2025

OTD Finland, Helsinki:
"Singers' tribute for the Nordic and United States envoys The impressive tribute to the singer outside the Swedish Minister's Hotel. At the door, Minister and Mrs. Sahlin are seen receiving the tribute."
Hufvudstadsbladet, 30.10.1939

Source: FINLAND'S STAND. (1939, Oktober 31). The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), p. 7. Retrieved Oktober 31, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46434671

Source: FINLAND'S STAND. (1939, Oktober 31). The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), p. 7. Retrieved Oktober 31, 2025, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-art...

FINLAND'S STAND. (1939, Oktober 31). The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), p. 7. Retrieved Oktober 31, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46434671

OTD Oct 1939, Hitler-Stalin-Pact "Yesterday massed choirs led a crowd of 100,000 outside the US legation in Helsinki in singing "The Starspangled Banner" and the Finnish national an them. US Minister acknowledged the cheers and speeches of gratitude for the US support of Finland.
The West Australian

Source: Image 24 of The Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.), October 20, 1939
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Image 24 of The Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.), October 20, 1939 https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82014085/1939-10-20/ed-1/?sp=24&q=Finland&st=pdf&r=-0.251,-0.075,1.502,1.502,0

OTD Hitler-Stalin-Pact
"Russian Grab Meets Resistance When It's Finland's Turn To Give - The thrifty Finns paid their World war debts-financial variety. But the new war finds the Soviet, seeking a price that Finland is not so willing to pay."
October 20, 1939
The Waterbury Democrat

Gerneral Laidoner: He and his wife were deported to Penza, Russia, died in prison; President Päts July 1940, together with his son Viktor and Viktor's wife Helgi-Alice and sons Matti and Henn, Konstantin Päts was deported to Ufa, ..

In 1941 Soviet occupation authorities arrested Reek imprisoned and the following year executed him; Brede, after Estonia was occupied by the SU, was transferred to the Soviet Army. When Germany invaded Estonia in 1941, arrested by NKVD, sent to prison camp, where he was executed ...

Source: The Baltic Times : The First International English Newspaper in The Baltic States and Scandinavia, nr. 22, 5 oktoober 1939
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OTD Turning point in Estonia history. Illusions on the Estonian side. Politicians mentioned: Selter left Estonia in Nov 1939, moved to Geneva; Piip was arrested by the NKVD 1941,died in a Soviet prison camp; Following the 1940 occupation, Rei escaped to Stockholm and lived in exile ..
Oct 5. 1939

This the Budapest Memorandum was about:
"Clinton pledged 'That America will stand with you to support your independence and territorial integrity'."
The Daily Gazette 23. Nov. 1994
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OTD 1939 WWII
"Russia Hits Poland -..reports stated that the Soviets launched the incursion into eastern Poland, while German troops are overrunning the western and central regions, .."
McAllen daily press (McAllen, Tex.), September 17, 1939
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OTD 1939 WWII
"Russia Orders Army To Invade Poland - Soviet Will Occupy White Russian and Ukrainian Regions -
Polish State No Longer Exists Moscow Declares in Note
Sent to All Envoys"
Evening star (Washington, D.C.), September 17, 1939
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OTD Hitler-Stalin-Pact
"Russia to enter Poland today?" - "...the Soviet government had informed the Polish Ambassador to Russia that Soviet troops would cross the Russian-Polish frontier at 4am"
The Laredo times (Laredo, Tex.), September 17, 1939 loc.gov/resource/sn8...

"I saw Molotov at 6 o'clock today and carried out instructions. Molotov declared that military intervention by the Soviet Union was imminent-perhaps even tomorrow or the day after"
The German Ambassador in the Soviet Union to the German Foreign Office"
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Source: Image 6 of Henderson daily dispatch (Henderson, N.C.), September 16, 1939
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OTD Hitler-Stalin-Pact
"With details of the Russo-German pact being kept secret, Soviet’s .. army mobilizing and Red soldiers massing on the Polish border, Allied leaders fear Russia may have been promised a share of Poland and is
preparing to help the invading Nazis."
September 16, 1939

OTD
"Please discuss this at once with Molotov and see if the Soviet Union does not consider it desirable for Russian forces to move at the proper time against Polish forces in the Russian sphere of interest and, for their part, to occupy this territory" Ribbentrop
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Finland should stay neutral after Germany invading Poland Hufvudstadsbladet, 03.09.1939, no. 236 (2. painos), p. 1 https://digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/sanomalehti/binding/2213516?page=1 National Library's Digital Collections Cited:03.09.2025

OTD Hitler-Stalin-Pact, Germany invaded Poland,
"Finland should follow complete neutrality
The President issues a declaration of neutrality."
Hufvudstadsbladet, 03.09.1939, no. 236 (2. painos), p. 1
digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/sanomalehti/...
National Library's Digital Collections
Cited:03.09.2025

Shadow fleet tankers have been carrying military staff actively documenting critical infrastructure as they pass through Danish (and likely European) waters.

Danish pilots have seen several instances of it and notified authorities.

Should be more than 0 now.

BALTIC STATES AND PEACE - Warwick Daily News (Qld. : 1919 -1954) - 2 Aug 1939 Latvia and Estonia have reached a useful compromise with Germany, in signing their pacts of non-aggressionThe German Government required two ...

Source: BALTIC STATES AND PEACE (1939, August 2). Warwick Daily News (Qld. : 1919 -1954), p. 4. Retrieved August 2, 2025, from nla.gov.au/nla.news-art...

OTD Two weeks before Hitler-Stalin-Pact.
"Last year the two countries [Latvia, Estonia] declared their strict neutrality. -This would give them their one chance, small as it might be,-in case of war; Voluntarily to side with Germany has never been seriously considered"
August 2, 1939

31.7.1939 Hufvudstadsbladet no 202, s. 1 -. Hufvudstadsbladet Ab. Sanomalehti. Kansalliskirjaston digitaaliset aineistot

Source: Hufvudstadsbladet, 31.07.1939, nro 202, s. 1
digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/sanomalehti/...
Kansalliskirjaston digitaaliset aineistot
Viitattu:02.08.2025

July 31, 1939. The month before Hitler-Stalin-Pact
"The Nordic region must not be an object for power-political combinations
Why should Finland be patronized when Poland is excluded from the guarantee system?
Sandler sharply condemns the great power reasoning
about our country."