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On September 1st 1939 Hitler invades Poland. Two days later both France and Germany declare war on Germany. Canada waits another week before following suit. Hilter had shown his Blitzkrieg tactic.
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The Canadian government had forced nearly 21,000 Japanese Canadians — more than half of whom were Canadian citizens by birth — out of their homes and farms, mostly on the British Columbia coast, and into internment camps in the interior.
