Hitler’s War on Poland: Countdown to Armageddon (TRIH eps 530-532)
1939 · Resource
By the 11th of April 1939, Adolf Hitler and his Nazis were in the process of drawing up a plan of attack for Poland, the Poles having resisted Germany’s attempts to make them hand over Danzig and turn themselves into a satellite state. Now, with a new military alliance between France, Britain and Poland established, the time has come for Hitler to throw the dice and cast Europe into the long predicted war. Yet, at this most crucial and long awaited moment of his career, Hitler found himself i...
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- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- World War II (1939)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)