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Czechoslovakia in World War II

Submitted by Jason McDonald on July 26, 2011 - 3:16pm

Adolf Hitler had completed Anschluss with Austria and now was looking towards lands not traditionally part of “Greater Germany.” The Sudatenland, a narrow strip of mountainous land in Czechoslovakia, held a predominantly ethnic German population on the border with Germany.

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Belgium in World War II

Submitted by Jason McDonald on July 25, 2011 - 9:21pm

King Leopold III, commander of the Belgian Armed Forces in 1940, had a strategic dilemma. Both the French and the Germans sought to make war with each other on his soil. Both had war plans that called for advancement into Belgium to fight the main force engagement that General Gamelin, the French commander, and General Manstein, the German commander, hoped would eliminate the other.

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