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Britain Beats off Nazi Air Raiders Athenia Shelled September 6 1939 170144CQ B9
Britain Beats off Nazi Air Raiders Athenia Shelled September 6 1939 170144CQ B9

Britain Beats off Nazi Air Raiders Athenia Shelled September 6 1939 170144CQ B9

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  • Condition: In Excellent Original condition..Some restoration has taken place.. Restoration Tape has been used in some places.

    Description

    Original Montreal Daily Star Dated September 6th 1939 (32 Pages)
    French Tanks move into Saar..British Fight of Nazi Raiders..Shelling Athenia Confirmed..
    The Outbreak of Second World War - September 1939
    On 1st September 1939 Germany aircraft bombed the city of Wielun in Poland and minutes later the battleship 'Schleswig-Holstein' bombarded the Polish port where it was on a "courtesy visit". The invasion of Poland which followed led the British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, to declare war on Germany in a radio broadcast on 3rd September 1939.
    In the early hours of Friday, 1 September 1939, the Germany army invaded Poland. It was an invasion that ought to have come as little surprise. The Nazis had been agitating against the Poles – particularly in the Danzig corridor – for sometime. Indeed, the previous Saturday – 26 August – a small group of German soldiers had already attempted an invasion, not realizing that this, the original date for the offensive, had been postponed.
    But this action, on 1 September, was the German High Command’s Fall Weiss (Plan White) in full fury. Three separate armoured thrusts pushed into Polish territory. The offensive in the centre was deliberately less strong than the other two in the north (commanded by Colonel-General Fedor von Bock) and south (commanded by Colonel-General Gerd von Rundstedt). The idea was to embrace the whole of Poland in one near-seamless action. The Poles, who resisted bravely, ultimately could not cope with the power of the German attack.
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