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40 Facts About Adolf Hitler and His Dramatic Fall

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Boundaries of the planned “Greater Germanic Reich”. Hayden120 – “Utopia: The ‘Greater Germanic Reich of the German Nation'”. Institut für Zeitgeschichte. München – Berlin. 1999./Wikimedia Commons.

21. The Next Year, Hitler Invaded the Rest of Europe

In 1940, Hitler invaded the countries of France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Luxembourg, and Belgium. The island country of the United Kingdom was protected from a land invasion, but Hitler began bombing raids there, which became known as a blitzkrieg (lightning war).

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