WW2 · BATTLE SITE ·
Battle of Westerplatte (1939)
On the WW2 map as “Danzig & Westerplatte”
1 Sep 1939 — The battleship Schleswig-Holstein fires the first shots of the war in Europe.
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- Invasion of Poland (chapter 2 of WW2)
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- The War Room — WW2, 1936–1945
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- Road to WW2
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