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Hitler's Casus Belli: The Fake Story That Started WWII | WWII: Price Of Empire (2021x101)

: 19, 2021

Hitler's rise to power in 1933 dismantled democracy. His goal; ultimate domination and a 'Thousand-Year Reich'. But despite being one of the world's most evil men even Hitler needed a dubious 'legal' reason to begin his war. And so in 1939 he fake his casus belli or reason for war. Planting German convicts in Polish uniforms and having them shot. The rest they say is history...But how would the early years of WWII play out and what were some of the key moments that shaped its final years?