Germany invades Poland, September 1st 1939

Today in 1939, Germany invaded Poland. England and France, who had remained mostly silent while Hitler built his war machine in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, gave Germany an ultimatum: withdraw from Poland by September 3rd or risk an all-out war on the Continent. The Second World War had begun -- History with an opinion, the past with an attitude, from Matt Dattilo.