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Battle site · The Road to War, 1931–1941
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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.
This is one scene of Chapter 8 — Prague, the Pact, Poland in The Road to War, 1931–1941.
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