German battleship Schleswig-Holstein bombing Westerplatte, Poland according to a report of of the American Naval Attaché at Berlin, Germany Nr. R562 dated 15 September 1939

On the Afgesloten IJ off the De Ruijterkade, Amsterdam, Netherlands in October 1934

Source Stadsarchief Amsterdam

Diary note dated Friday 1 September 1939. An item reported that the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein visiting Danzig, Poland bombarded a Polish ammunition dump at Westerplatte (Danzig). On 4 September he wrote that the guard at the Westerplatte munition dump still not surrendered, The German forces stopped with further heavy attacks, probably fearing a detonation of the enorme storage of munition.(1)

Note

1. Part of Deutschland-class preceded by Braunschweig-class succeeded by Nassau-class, ordered on 11 June 1904, laid down by Germanuawerft, Kiel, Germany on 18 August 1905, launched on 17 December 1906, commissioned on 6 July 1908, decommissioned between 2 May 1917 and 31 January 1926, sunk in a British air attack at Gotenhafen [Gdynia, Poland] in December 1944, scuttled on 21 March 1945, salvaged and beached and used as a target between 1948-1966. Remains nowadays submerged.

Source

National Archives. FDR Presidential Library&Museum Roosevelt PSFC000175. War diary Naval Attaché Berlin, volume 1 (1 September 1939-26 May 1940)