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On March 13, 1938, Germany took over Austria
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At the Munich Conference on September 28-29, 1938, the French and the British handed Germany a large portion of Czechoslovakia. Hitler then took the rest of Czechoslovakia by March 1939
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On the night of August 31, 1939, Nazis took an unknown prisoner from one of their concentration camps, dressed him in a Polish uniform, took him to the town of Gleiwitz, and then shot him. the staged scene with the dead prisoner dressed in a Polish uniform was supposed to appear as a Polish attack against a German radio station.
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Non one wanted war. Yet, Germany attacked Poland on September 1, 1939 other European countries felt they had to act. The result was six long years of World War 2
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At 4:45 on the morning of September 1, 1939, German troops enter Poland. The sudden, immense attack by the Germans was called a Blitzkrieg