Word: nazis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first five days, hundreds of Nazi bombing planes dumped ton after ton of explosive on every city of any importance the length & breadth of Poland. They aimed at air bases, fortifications, bridges, railroad lines and stations, but in the process they killed upward of 1,500 noncombatants. The Nazi ships were mostly big Heinkels, unaccompanied by pursuit escorts. Germany admitted losing 21 planes to Polish counterattack by pursuits and antiaircraft. They claimed to have massacred more than half of a 47-plane Polish squadron which tried to bomb Berlin...
...East Prussia, one force moved on Grudziadz. After four days, it made contact with another force driving across the Corridor from the west to cut the Warsaw-Gdynia rail line. Also from East Prussia went a column aimed at Mlawa and Pultusk. Based on Breslau, a many-headed fourth Nazi onslaught was launched toward Lodz, Kielce and Cracow. Based on Bratislava in Slovakia, a fifth and sixth spearhead were driven up through the Jablonka Pass and over the steep Tatras to the East. Radomska, Czestochowa, Katowice, Teschen and Nowy Targ were the first targets of these southwestern assaults. German commanders...
...with notes written on small sheets of white paper. He said that Britain's defenses were stronger than in 1914. His voice broke slightly when he read Britain's ultimatum. It grew angry when he said that if Poland remained undefended every country in Europe would fall by the Nazis' "sickening technique." There was a roar from the House when he pounded the table and cried: "The German Chancellor has not hesitated to plunge the world into misery to serve his senseless ambitions." There was a louder roar when he said, "We have no quarrel with the German people except...
Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Göring, No. 2 Nazi and dictator of Germany's Four-Year Plan, chairman...
Rudolf Hess, No. 3 Nazi and deputy leader of the party, the hirsute anti-Semite who in 1923 was Hitler's beer-hall Putsch-mate...