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WW2 the big questions: the build up

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The Importance of War

The reason it changed in March 1939 is Hitler moves into the rest of the Czech lands, while simultaneously getting Slovakia to declare itself a puppet republic. That's the line in the sand we've had enough. Sure. Why did Hitler then move on to Poland, knowing, presumably knowing that it was going to stir up trouble with everyone else? Part of him doesn't believe it. Part of him believes that he famously says that he said, he said, I saw our enemies at Munich their week, they're sort of, I think he maybe used the word worms or something,. But he feels he's built up. There's a sense that, oh my God, I may die and I

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