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August 1939 in Europe

  • Gleiwitz incidentOn the night of the 31st of August 1939, a small group of German operatives dressed in Polish uniforms seized the radio station Sender Gleiwitz.
  • Molotov–Ribbentrop PactThe outcome of World War I was disastrous for both the German and Russian empires. The Russian Civil War broke out in late 1917 after the Bolshevik…