Germany Flashcards
1
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Poland
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GY invaded Poland in September 1939
causes:
- resentment to for the fact that the Polish corridor and Danzig (access to the Baltic Sea), that they deemed GY
2
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effects of WW1
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the resentment of the Treaty of Versailles which shaped GY politics for 20 years → humiliation and hyperinflation + the G.D
Lebensraum, social Darwinism, stab in the back
6 million unemployed in 1932
Fire to Richestag in Feb 1933: H. declared it a communist plot, arrested socialists and communists → GY declared a state of emergency → article 48 → state of totalitarian state
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