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.
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Around 1939
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)