sep 1, 1939 - Germany invades Poland
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-At 4:45 a.m., some 1.5 million German troops invade Poland all along its 1,750-mile border with German-controlled territory. Simultaneously, the German Luftwaffe bombed Polish airfields, and German warships and U-boats attacked Polish naval forces in the Baltic Sea-To Hitler, the conquest of Poland would bring Lebensraum, or “living space,” for the German people
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Date:
sep 1, 1939
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~ 85 years ago