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  2. Axis powers - Wikipedia

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    Hitler in 1941 described the outbreak of World War II as the fault of the intervention of Western powers against Germany during its war with Poland, describing it as the result of "the European and American warmongers". [42] Hitler had designs for Germany to become the dominant and leading state in the world, such as his intention for Germany's ...

  3. Foreign relations of Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

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    Hitler's Italian Allies: Royal Armed Forces, Fascist Regime, and the War of 1940–1943 (2000) online; Leitz, Christian. Nazi Foreign Policy, 1933–1941: The Road to Global War (2004) Martin, Bernd. Japan and Germany in the Modern World (1995) Mazower, Mark. Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe (2009) excerpt and text search; Michalka ...

  4. Axis leaders of World War II - Wikipedia

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    Adolf Hitler was leader of Nazi Germany, first as Chancellor from 1933 until 1934. He later became Germany's Führer from 1934 until his suicide in 1945. Hitler came to power during Germany's period of crisis after the Great War which occurred between the 1920s and early 1930s.

  5. Timeline of World War II (1939) - Wikipedia

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    Germany's Führer, Adolf Hitler, answers immediately assuring the American chargé d'affaires Alexander C. Kirk that the Luftwaffe will only attack military targets. The British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain also promises to abide to the request, as does Poland's ambassador to the US Jerzy Antoni Potocki. [16]

  6. History of Poland (1918–1939) - Wikipedia

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    Hitler's long-term goals included annexing Polish territories and subordinating the remaining parts of Poland, an idea that he revealed to his closest circle already in 1933 [66] Poland's solution was a policy of normal relations with both Germany and the Soviet Union but alliance with neither (also described as "the policy of equal distance ...

  7. Collaboration in German-occupied Poland - Wikipedia

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    Poland's government crossed the border into Romania, and later formed a government-in-exile in France and then in London, following the French capitulation. Poland as a polity never surrendered to the Germans. [4] The partition of Poland according to the German–Soviet Pact; division of Polish territories in the years 1939–1941

  8. Allies of World War II - Wikipedia

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    The Allied leaders of the European theatre (left to right): Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meeting at the Tehran Conference in 1943 The Allied leaders of the Pacific War: Chiang Kai-shek, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill meeting at the Cairo Conference in 1943 French postcard illustrating the alliance between Poland, France and the United Kingdom (1939 ...

  9. Military career of Adolf Hitler - Wikipedia

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    The military career of Adolf Hitler, who was the dictator of Germany from 1933 until 1945, can be divided into two distinct portions of his life. Mainly, the period during World War I when Hitler served as a Gefreiter (lance corporal [A 1]) in the Bavarian Army, and the era of World War II when he served as the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht (German Armed Forces) through his ...