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Battle of Westerplatte (1939)
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1 Sep 1939 — At 4:47 a.m. the battleship Schleswig-Holstein opens fire on a Polish depot in Danzig harbor: the first shots of the European war. The garrison of 200 holds for seven days.
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- Outbreak of WW2 in Europe (chapter 8 of Road to WW2)
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- The Road to War, 1931–1941
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- WW2
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