HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Lightning, El Alamein
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Suggested to german population that war goals have room to grow and achieving destiny of master race would be easy and quick. Later in september, soviet union joins attack on poland. Had to invade poland because there was an international jewish conspiracy plotting to throw the world into war and annihilate germans. After winning battle in poland hitler orders an attack in france later in that year. Commanders told him to postpone the battle until the spring of 1940 because they weren"t equipped. Mussolini invades france as well time for italy to be a great power along with germany. Britain alone is holding off the german attempt to conquer all of europe. Non-aggression pact with soviet union not worried about the eastern front. Hitler orders the bombardment of england during the summer of 1940. When he talks about the empire he is including all commonwealth states. Hitler wanted to mount a naval attack on britain.
