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Events on Friday 22 September 1939 1
1880 – 1939Werner von Fritsch (1880-1939)Died 22 September 1939, aged 59Fritsch was Commander-in-Chief of the German Army until 1938, when false homosexuality charges forced him out. He was killed near Warsaw during the invasion of Poland. He was one of the first German generals to die in the war.