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...broad outlines of Germany's assault began to take shape. Recapture of what was Germany in 1914 was the first objective: Danzig, the Corridor, and a hump of Upper Silesia. It is believed that Adolf Hitler, if allowed to take this much, might have checked his juggernaut at these lines. When Britain & France insisted that he withdraw entirely from Polish soil, he determined on the complete subjugation of Poland...
...GERMANY Hitler's Decision...
...week sombre-faced Germans filed past the huge new building that Adolf Hitler built as a symbol of Germany's might. It was a housepainter's dream of a Reichschancellery, nearly a quarter-mile long, with marble chambers and vast, tapestry-hung halls and an immense study in which a man might feel alone with his destiny. For the seven most momentous days of Europe's modern history Adolf Hitler did not leave this building...
Thus did Adolf Hitler, on the Sunday morning of June 22, 1941, begin a proclamation that ended with a declaration of war against the largest country and the largest army in the world...
...first step in wisdom to recognize that the major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the society in which they occur." For good or ill, the processes of change have swept the whole world. World War II did more than end Hitler's nightmarish rule and Japan's conquests. It impelled the European great powers, exhausted as they were by victory or by enemy occupation, to let their colonial empires go. At the end of the war, only 18 fully independent nations existed in Asia and Africa; before long there were more than 80. Winston...