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Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini, Lord Halifax, and Count Ciano at the Rome Opera House, Italy, Jan 1939	Newly completed New Reich Chancellery building, Berlin, Germany, Jan 1939

Portrait of Robert von Greim, Jan 1939	Portrait of Walther von Brauchitsch, Jan 1939

Volunteer soldiers of the German Condor Legion under training in Ávila, Spain, early 1939	Japanese Prime Minister Kiichiro Hiranuma with members of his cabinet, Tokyo, Japan, 5 Jan 1939; note Minister-without-Portfolio Konoe, Interior Minister Kido, Naval Minister Yonai, War Minister Itagaki, Foreign Minister Arita

Battleship Washington under construction, Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States, 6 Jan 1939	Ceremony on Scharnhorst's afterdeck, possibly during the commissioning ceremony of 7 Jan 1939

Captured Chinese Panzer I Ausf A tanks on display in Tokyo, Japan, 8-15 Jan 1939	Marble gallery of the New Reich Chancellery, Berlin, Germany, 10 Jan 1939

Arthur Vandenberg and Harry Hopkins at the Capitol Building, Washington, United States, 11 Jan 1939	Vatican Apostolic Nuncio to Germany Cesare Orsenigo speaking with Joachim von Ribbentrop, Berlin, Germany, 12 Jan 1939; note Adolf Hitler in background

USS Ranger entering the Miraflores Locks at the Panama Canal, 13 Jan 1939.	View of the forward torpedo room aboard Sargo-class submarine Saury during her fitting out period at the Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut, United States, 14 Jan 1939.

View of North Carolina's No. 2 Machinery Space during the ship's construction, New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, United States, 16 Jan 1939	US Assistant Secretary of Commerce Richard Patterson and President of the Carnegie Institute Vannevar Bush speaking before the hearings of the Temporary National Economic Committee, United States Capitol, Washington, United States, 17 Jan 1939

Launching ceremony of Seydlitz, Deschimag shipyard, Bremen, Germany, 19 Jan 1939	Close-up of a German Nazi Party SA insignia, 22 Jan 1939

Adolf Hitler speaking to the Reichstag at the Kroll Opera House, Berlin, Germany, 30 Jan 1939	Submarine tender Tsurugizaki in the Pacific Ocean off Tateyama, Chiba, Japan, 30 Jan 1939; she was later converted to become light carrier Shoho