History of War – October 2019

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Taken: September, 1939

A motorcyclist halts at a crossroads in the north

of Poland, during the 1939 invasion. The region,

known as the Polish or Danzig Corridor, was a strip

of territory between Germany and East Prussia

• its borders having been established in the
  aftermath of WWI. Demands for the Free
  City of Danzig, within the Corridor,
  were among Hitler’s justifications
  for the invasion.

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