HISTORY 126B Chapter Notes - Chapter articles: Ethnobiology, Ethnic Conflict
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#34: adolf hitler, speech before the reichstag, september 1939: background. Second half of 1930s, hitler kept pushing international community"s willingness to challenge his plans of expansion of german territory. Rearm germany, remilitarize rhineland, annex austria, occupy. And then there was opposition from french and british when he invaded. In speech, he blames poles for attacking them first and they were just trying to defend themselves excuse for german aggression: text. Starts off saying that the land is rightfully germany"s. Says that he"s tried to peacefully negotiate but it didn"t work and it wasn"t done. Claims that polish army fired onto german territory and now they"re just trying to fire back. Whatever the poles fire, the germans will retaliate with. Says that german forces are powerful enough to fight back. Expects german people to make sacrifices for the nation because he"s already made sacrifices.
