Hitler's War on Poland: Countdown to Armageddon (Part 1)
Hitler closes in on Poland.
Following the Munich agreement of September 1938, Nazi troops marched into Czechoslovakia and ruthlessly claimed it as a German protectorate. Still, even following his annexation of Czechoslovakia, Hitler鈥檚 determination to make Germany the greatest power in Europe was far from sated. Thus, hungry for war and keenly conscious of Germany鈥檚 fast imploding economic situation, his mind had turned by the beginning of 1939 to his next unfortunate target: Poland. And it was not only defeat that he envisaged this time, but Polish liquidation. But, with both the Poles and British becoming increasingly wary of Germany's growing assertiveness and militarism, in March 1939 they and France forged a military alliance. Enraged by this, Hitler finalised his plans for the conquest of Poland. In an unexpected turn of events, he also went in search of an unlikely ally of his own to counter the new alliance from which he was smarting: Russia鈥檚 Joseph Stalin, the Nazis鈥� ideological antagonist鈥�
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