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August 31st 1939
At noon on Thursday August 31st Adolf Hitler signs an order to attack Poland despite threats of French and British intervention.At dawn the next morning, 58 German army divisions invaded Poland all across the 1,750-mile frontier. -
Sunday September 3rd 1939
At 11:15 am British prime minister Neville Chamberlain announces on public radio that England is now at war with German, on this day France, Australia, New Zealand also declared war on Germany due to Hitlers army's invasion of Poland not long before hand. -
Wednesday September 6th 1939
The was the day when the German forces take control of Krakow and the Polish government and military command flee to Warsaw. -
September 27th 1939
The Polish capital of Warsaw officially falls and Polish forces fighting it out at the mod line fortress officially surrender, the next day 140,000 Polish soldiers were taken out of the city by the Germasn as prisoners of war. -
May 28th 1940
Belgium falls to German in Just eighteen days with the Belgium out of the way the German army begin making their way to the French coastline in an attempt to completely eliminate allied forces for good, also 25573 British soldiers are evacuated from France. -
June 23rd 1940
One day after France signed the armistice with Germany in June 1940, Adolf Hitler celebrated the German victory over France with a triumphant tour of Paris. Hitler surveying his conquest with his various cronies and became one of the most iconic photos of the 1940s and World War 2. This the first and the only time he visited Paris. -
October 15 1940
The Italians decide on an operation to invade Greece without the knowledge or approval of the Germans. -
November 26 1940
On the 26th of November 1940 the construction of the ghetto in the Polish capital of Warsaw took place. This is an effort to control the local Jewish populations -
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