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Aug 31, 1939:
Germany prepares for invasion of Poland
At noon, despite threats of British and French intervention,
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler signs an order to attack Poland, and
German forces move to the frontier. That evening, Nazi S.S.
troops wearing Polish uniforms staged a phony invasion of
Germany, damaging several minor installations on the German side
of the border. They also left behind a handful of dead German
prisoners in Polish uniforms to serve as further evidence of the
alleged Polish attack, which Nazi propagandists publicized as an
unforgivable act of aggression.
At dawn the next morning, 58 German army divisions invaded
Poland all across the 1,750-mile frontier. Hitler expected
appeasement from Britain and France--the same nations that had
given Czechoslovakia away to German conquest in 1938 with their
signing of the Munich Pact. However, neither country would allow
Hitler's new violation of Europe's borders, and Germany was
presented with an ultimatum: Withdraw by September 3 or face war
with the Western democracies.
At 11:15 a.m. on September 3, a few minutes after the expiration
of the British ultimatum, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain
appeared on national radio to announce solemnly that Britain was
at war with Germany. Australia, New Zealand, and India
immediately followed suit. Later that afternoon, the French
ultimatum expired, and at 5:00 p.m. France declared war on
Germany. The European phase of World War II began.
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