THE START OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR

In the early hours of September 1, 1939, the German troops poured into Poland and, two days later, Britain and France entered the war, signaling the start of the Second World War - the biggest such conflict in living memory, fought by 61 nations comprising 80 percent of the world's entire human population.

The war zone included Europe, Asia and Africa and a staggering 110 million people were drafted around the world. World War Two lasted six years - two years longer than World War One - and brought more destruction than any other war ever fought by man…

Aiming for a complete rout of the Polish army in high-speed armored warfare, Adolf Hitler amassed about 70 percent of his troops in the east providing considerable superiority in both manpower and military hardware.

It was the deep and rapid thrusts of the German mechanized forces that decided the issue, in conjunction with the overhead pressure of the Luftwaffe, wrecking the Polish railway system and destroying most of the Polish air force before it could come into action.

Exactly a month later, on October 2, Poland surrendered becoming the first victim of the German aggression and the Nazi theory of racial superiority. The victorious Germans started systematically annihilating the Polish Jews, intellectuals and taking hundreds of thousands more to slave labor in Germany.

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