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The Destruction Of Poland

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How was one of the most crazy, power seeking, people on the planet ever defeated? In 1936 Adolf Hitler with the help of Joseph Goebbels, propaganda minister, Hermann Goering the general of the air force, and Heinrich Himmler who was in charge of the SS all began to annex the neighboring countries of Austria and Czechoslovakia. Soon after Hitler made a pact with Stalin, dictator of the Soviet Union. The Non-Aggression Pact that would allow Hitler to invade Poland. In 1939 he attacked Poland unleashing a Blitzkrieg or “Lightning War” that soon defeated the country. 1939 England and France declared war on Hitler and WWII had officially began. As Poland fell the last remnants in Warsaw, the capital of Poland, was completely defeated and crushed

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