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Title: "We have now been returning fire since 5:45 AM !" Post by: Tender Branson on September 01, 2014, 02:29:03 AM Quote "For the first time last night, Polish military invaded our territory and attacked from our soil. We have now been returning fire since 5:45 AM ! And from now on, we shall repay bomb for bomb!" Adolf Hitler's speech to the German Reichstag, Berlin - September 1, 1939 Quote On September 1, 1939, the pre-dawn skies lit up over the Baltic Sea as the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire on a Polish fortress on the Westerplatte Peninsula as assault troops hidden aboard the vessel stormed the shoreline. The venerable ship that had seen action in World War I fired the first salvos of what would be a second global conflagration. Without a declaration of war, 1.5 million troops stormed Nazi Germany’s 1,750-mile border with Poland. They came from the north, south and west. They came by land, by air and by sea in a quest to regain territory lost by Germany in the Treaty of Versailles and colonize its neighbor. http://www.history.com/news/world-war-ii-begins-75-years-ago Title: Re: "We have now been returning fire since 5:45 AM !" Post by: ○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ on September 02, 2014, 01:45:03 AM In the middle of the month, those sneaky Poles must have sneak attacked the Soviet Union.
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