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Day War Came II Danzig Opened Hostilities At Dawn
In Danzig on September 1 1939 German guns opened World War II. Hitler seized Danzig under League of Nations safeguards as the Baltic port endured heavy shelling from Schleswig Holstein. Polish Major Sucharski and 202 troops repelled multiple assaults at Westerplatte before surrendering on the seventh day, with Sucharski later recalling it as the most tragic moment of his life.
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Lynn Heinzerling
Associated Press
Danzig
Adolf Hitler
League of Nations
Hitler
Germany
Schlestig Holstein
Wich
Westerplatte
Free State of Danzig
Mansiowers
Renais- Séence
Wehrmacht
Deutches Haus
Henrik Sucharsk
Sucharsk
Greboszce
Poland
Schleswig Holstein
Sucharski
Su- Charski
Maj
Su-charski
Zimer
Warsaw
Soviet Union
Kharusaches