EXECUTION of Ludwig Fischer - Brutal NAZI Governor of Warsaw District - Warsaw Uprising - Holocaust. The second world war began on the 1st of September, 1939 with the invasion of Poland. To justify the action, Nazi propagandists accused Poland of persecuting ethnic Germans who were living in Poland. They also falsely claimed that Poland was planning, with its allies Great Britain and France, to encircle and dismember Germany. After the SS, in collusion with the German military, staged a phony attack on a German radio station, the Germans accused the Poles. Hitler then used the action to launch a “retaliatory” campaign against Poland. Warsaw suffered heavy air attacks and artillery bombardment and German troops entered the capital on 29th of September shortly after its surrender. After defeating the Polish army, the Germans ruthlessly suppressed the Poles whom they considered to be racially inferior and, in the weeks, following the German attack on Poland, German SS, police, and military units shot
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