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21.   The Occupation of Prague: A Motorcycle Division on the Charles Bridge (March 15, 1939)
While Hitler was declaring his peaceful intentions after the Munich Agreement, he was also....
The Occupation of Prague: A Motorcycle Division on the Charles Bridge (March 15, 1939)
22.   The "Pact of Steel": The Signing of the German-Italian Military Alliance in the New Reich Chancellery (May 22, 1939)
Signed on May 22, 1939, the "Pact of Steel" was another foreign policy step taken in preparation for the German attack on Poland. With this pact, the German Reich and Italy committed themselves to....
The
23.   Signing of the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Treaty (August 23, 1939)
In 1939, German war preparations were advancing rapidly on all fronts, including the diplomatic one. Over the course of the year, the German Reich formed a multitude of alliances to optimize the....
Signing of the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Treaty (August 23, 1939)
24.   A Danzig Street Decorated with Swastika Flags (1937)
After the end of the First World War, Germany had been forced to cede a strip of land in West Prussia (the so-called Polish Corridor) to Poland. In addition, the harbor city of Danzig and the surrounding....
A Danzig Street Decorated with Swastika Flags (1937)
25.   German Soldiers Dismantle a Polish Border Barrier (September 1, 1939)
In the early morning hours of September 1, 1939, the German invasion of Poland began. At 4:45 a.m., the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein began to bombard the Polish munitions depot on the Westerplatte....
German Soldiers Dismantle a Polish Border Barrier (September 1, 1939)
26.   Adolf Hitler among General Field Officers and Adjutants with Advancing Troops (September 1, 1939)
The attack on Poland was the Nazi regime's first successful blitzkrieg offensive. The German armed....
Adolf Hitler among General Field Officers and Adjutants with Advancing Troops (September 1, 1939)
27.   Germans in Front of a Radio Store in Berlin Listen to News of the Invasion of Poland (September 1, 1939)
The German population reacted mainly with fear and concern to news of the invasion of Poland and the subsequent declarations of war issued by Great Britain and France on September 3, 1939. Many Germans....
Germans in Front of a Radio Store in Berlin Listen to News of the Invasion of Poland (September 1, 1939)
28.   German-Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty – The New Borders after the Division of Poland (September 28, 1939)
On September 28, 1939, Ribbentrop and Molotov signed the so-called German-Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty as a supplement to the "territorial and political transformation" of Eastern Europe....
German-Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty – The New Borders after the Division of Poland (September 28, 1939)
29.   Alleged War Guilt: Former German Ambassador to Poland, Hans-Adolf von Moltke, Shows Foreign Journalists Archival Materials from Warsaw as "Proof" of Poland's Responsibility for the War (Fall 1939)
Nazi propaganda presented the attack on Poland as a defensive measure. But in actuality, the SS, acting on Hitler's instructions, had staged a series of "Polish provocations" on the night of August....
Alleged War Guilt: Former German Ambassador to Poland, Hans-Adolf von Moltke, Shows Foreign Journalists Archival Materials from Warsaw as "Proof" of Poland's Responsibility for the War (Fall 1939)
30.   Resettlement Action: Budapest Rations Station for Ethnic Germans from Bukovina (1940)
The Nazi regime pursued a ruthless Germanization and resettlement policy in the conquered Eastern European territories. The regime was primarily concerned with the ethnic German population in Bessarabia,....
Resettlement Action: Budapest Rations Station for Ethnic Germans from Bukovina (1940)
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