23 Jun 1939
- Martin Bormann issued a secret order to the German Minister of Education to suppress Divinity Schools. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Pope Pius XII reached an agreement with Brazilian President Getúlio Vargas for Brazil to issue 3,000 visas to allow non-Aryan Catholics, some of whom were Jews recently converted to Catholicism to escape prosecution, to travel to Brazil. Ultimately, however, only under 1,000 visas would be issued. ww2dbase [Pius XII | CPC]
- The country of Siam was officially renamed Thailand. ww2dbase [CPC]
- Hermann Göring headed up the Reich Defense Council in Germany to plan for total mobilization of the country for war. Minister of Economics Walther Funk offered the idea of using future prisoners of war as forced laborers, while SS chief Heinrich Himmler offered his prisoners in concentration camps for the same propose. ww2dbase [Hermann Göring | CPC]
- USS Nashville departed Norfolk, Virginia, United States. ww2dbase [Nashville | Norfolk, Virginia | CPC]
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