✓ The reasons for the German invasion of Poland in 1939 - A MOVE TOWARDS WAR (not incl notes)

Question 1

What did H talk about in speeches & negotiations with Italy regarding war?

Answer 1

talked of being ready to fight a large-scale war in the early 1940s
- when newly acquired land in the east would be Germanised & G would have a larger military force

Question 2

Did H believe that Fr & Br were serious abt stopping him?

Answer 2

H may have perceived the Br/Fr promises as bluffs

• failing to see that his increasing brutality towards Jews in Germany (e.g. Kristallnacht) + him breaking his promise abt not invading the rest of Cz

= led to a change to feeling in Br & Fr