September

Excerpt from the diary of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the USSR in Sweden Alexandra Kollontai - about the German attack on Poland, the reaction of the Swedish Government to the beginning of the war and the request to the USSR for oil supplies to Sweden

Cipher telegram from the Plenipotentiary Representative of the USSR in Germany A. A. Shkvartsev to the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR V. M. Molotov on Germany's readiness to fulfill its obligations under the Soviet-German Non-aggression Pact

Extract from the diary by the Plenipotentiary Representative of the USSR in Germany A. A. Shkvartsev - about the conversation with the Reich Chancellor of Germany Adolf Hitler during the presentation of letters of recall and credence

Cipher telegram of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the USSR in the UK I. M. Maysky to the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the USSR on the British government's declaration of war on Germany

Report of the Havas French News Agency "German Response to the Last Demarche of England"

Extract from the rewiev report by the German Ambassador to the UK Herbert von Dirksen - on the development of Anglo-German political relations in May-August 1939

Message from the Ambassador of France to Germany Robert Coulondre to the French Government on the demarche by the German Government insisting at end to hostilities against Poland

Appeal of the French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier to the nation regardin the country's entry into the war with Germany

Closed Paris metro station: Photography

Cipher telegram from Charge d'Affaires of the USSR in Italy L.B. Gelfand to the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the USSR on the differences within the Italo-German bloc