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Monday, September 1, 2014

75 YEARS AGO: GERMAN TROOPS INVADE POLAND



WWII 75th Anniversary: Germany Invades Poland, Launches Bloodiest War in Human History
On this day, 75 years ago, the bloodiest war in human history broke out when Nazi Germany, fresh off of signing a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union, invaded Poland. Though two years would pass before the United States entered the war, the conflict would profoundly change the American role in the world.
Adolph Hitler had duped many world leaders into believing that Germany really wanted peace and perhaps just a little "lebensraum," or "living space." But events would prove that they were bent on the conquest of a continent, and that the only thing that could stop this menace was military might.
German SS troops, the military arm of the Nazi Party, put on Polish army uniforms and raided several German outposts along the German-Polish border, giving the regime a false pretense for their war of conquest. At 4:45 am, on September 1, 1939, over a million Germans poured over the Polish border en route to the takeover of a country that had enjoyed less than a quarter century of independence since the end of the Great War, the so-called War to End All Wars. Poland was defeated in less than a month and the world was plunged into an even more devastating conflict.
Also read: September 1, 1939 vs. September 1, 2014 -- A Polish Perspective

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