| (narrator) September 1 , 1939. |
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| Germany attacks Poland. |
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| Adolf Hitler ignores Britain and France
which had promised to fight for Poland. |
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| Sunday September 3. The British prime
minister Neville Chamberlain broadcasts. |
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| (Chamberlain) This morning
the British ambassador in Berlin |
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| handed the German government
a final note |
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| stating that unless
we heard from them by 1 1 o'clock |
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| that they were prepared at once
to withdraw their troops from Poland, |
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| a state of war would exist between us. |
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| l have to tell you now that
no such undertaking has been received |
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| and that consequently
this country is at war with Germany. |
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| (chanting / cheering) |
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| (narrator) Danzig, taken
from Germany affer the First World War, |
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| welcomed its liberators. |
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| To many good Germans the city's capture
symbolised the end |
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| of the humiliating Treaty of Versailles. |
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| Hitler swept forward
to congratulate his victorious troops. |
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| He said they'd rescued his people
from Polish barbarism. |
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| The Germans thrust into Poland
from the west and north. |
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| ln two weeks the Polish army
had virtually ceased to exist. |
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| Warsaw was one of the few places
to hold out. |
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