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The country needed to be subjugated quickly before Britain and France could intervene. Germany’s Panzer divisions proved unstoppable. Backed by the Luftwaffe, they smashed through Poland’s defences, destroying roads, bridges and radio stations. The Polish defended valiantly, but were eventually forced to surrender. By 6th October, Poland was in  \nGerman hands. In spring 1940, the blitzkrieg rolled through Europe again – within a few months, France, Belgium, Holland, Denmark and Norway all fell. But when Hitler attacked Britain, he discovered the British were tougher than expected. This issue of Bringing History to Life tracks the Germans’ early advances to discover how a relatively small nation could take a continent by storm.  \n3  \nGerman tanks roar forward  \nA brand new tactic makes the Germans almost invincible in the war’s first year. Country after country falls to Hitler.  \nFollow the blitzkrieg war in Europe on page 6  \n1939  \n12 German troops invade Poland  \nHitler plays a high-stakes game by invading his neighbour.  \n22 U-boat sneaks into British naval base German strike on HMS Royal Oak shakes the British.  \n30 Petrol & sugar are worth more than gold The outbreak of war leads to fuel and food rationing.  \n38 Frost shatters Stalin’s plans  \nFrozen Finland proves too hard for the Red Army to crack.  \n46 Graf Spee loses her final battle  \nAllied warships surround German pocket battleship off Uruguay.  \n1940  \n54 Two men race for Norway  \nHitler and Churchill compete for the first foothold in the north.  \n60 Denmark sleeps through blitzkrieg  \nThe Danish government capitulates after four hours of fighting.  \n68 Norway falls  \nGerman troops encounter fierce resistance in Narvik.  \n78 Elite soldiers capture Belgian fort  \nNine German gliders sneak into Belgium’s most-guarded fortress.  \n86 Blitzkrieg forces Europe to its knees  \nInnovative new tactic makes German panzer divisions invincible.  \n94 The miracle at Dunkirk  \n400,000 Allied soldiers are surrounded by German tanks.  \n104 British pilots hold off the Luftwaffe German bombers terrorise Britain for 114 days.  \n114 Lenient, harsh and inhuman  \nThe occupation had different faces in Denmark, France and Poland.  \n122 Picture index  \nList of picture credits, plus contact information.  \nblitzkrieg 5  \n4TH JANUARY: Hermann Göring appoints Reinhard Heydrich to lead the operation to eradicate all Jews from Europe.  \n24TH JANUARY: Earthquake in Concepción, Chile. 30,000 people perish.  \n26TH JANUARY: General Franco’s Falangists capture Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War.  \n30TH JANUARY: Adolf Hitler openly threatens the Jews in a speech at the German Reichstag.  \n6TH FEBRUARY: The Spanish democratic government flees to France.  \n15TH FEBRUARY: Germans launch the Bismarck battleship.  \n16TH MARCH: Nazi Germany occupies Czechoslovakia.  \n21ST MARCH: Hitler demands that Gdansk, which has been administered by the League of Nations since World War I, is returned to Germany.  \nMARCH 28: The Spanish Civil War ends with Madrid’s capture.  \nYoungsters in uniform 5TH APRIL: New law requires German teenage boys to join the Hitler Youth.  \n6TH APRIL: Britain and Poland make a pact to secure Poland against a German invasion.  \n7TH APRIL: Italy invades the Kingdom of Albania.  \nNovel about US crisis 14TH APRIL: John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath is published.  \n17TH APRIL: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin signs an anti-Nazi pact with France and Britain.  \n7TH MAY: Italy and Nazi Germany announce an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis.  \nJUNE: The first Superman comic book is published.  \n17TH JUNE: The guillotine takes its last victim. 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