Seventy-five
years ago today, Germany invaded Poland, plunging the world into war.
In
the wee hours of September 1, 1939, Nazi soldiers brought convicts from German
prisons – grimly referred to as “canned goods” – to the German-Polish border.
The convicts were made to put on Polish army uniforms and then killed on the
border. Their dead bodies were “evidence” to the world that Poland had attacked
Germany, giving Hitler a pretext for invading Poland. Germans also took over a
Polish radio station and, pretending to be Polish, briefly broadcast a
threatening message to Germany to complete the deadly hoax. As the sun rose on
September 1, German troops rolled into Poland across a wide front.I just finished reading an excellent book about the German army in eastern Europe and Russia: In Deadly Combat: A German Soldier’s Memoir of the Eastern Front, by Gottlob Bidermann.....To Read More...
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