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531. Hitler's War on Poland: The Pact with Stalin (Part 2)

January 16, 2025

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By the 11th of April 1939, Adolf Hitler and his Nazis were in the process of drawing up a plan of attack for Poland, the Poles having resisted Germany’s attempts to make them hand over Danzig and...
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Books Referenced

Hitler: 1936-1945 Nemesis

Author: Ian Kershaw

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Context:

Referenced multiple times as 'Hitler's great biographer' and cited for describing Hitler's 50th birthday extravaganza and Hitler's mindset. Later explicitly mentioned as 'in Kershaw, describes the scene in his biography' when discussing Hitler's meeting with the Swedish intermediary Dalaris.

The Third Reich in Power

Author: Richard Evans

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Context:

Explicitly referenced as 'Richard Evans says in his book on the Third Reich' when discussing the propaganda stories about ethnic Germans in Poland being exaggerations and inventions.