e new Chancellor of the Reich. Immediately thereafter he scrapped the old Weimar republican constitution and replaced it with a dictatorship being run by none other than himself. Following the death of President Hindenburg on the 2nd of August 1934, Hitler assumed full leadership of the nation under the titles of Chancellor and Reichsfuehrer. In the coming year Hitler was to re-establish conscription; this startled the rest of Europe. Even to be more startling was the fact that,un-noticed, Germany's air-fleet, in the years before, had grown to be of great proportions and continuelygrowing very rapidly.In 1938, the Sudeten portions of Czechoslovakia, which had previously been a part of Germany, were given back to Germany following the end of the Munich pact, which stated that these areas wereto be a part of Czechoslovakia following World War I. On the 14th of March, 1939, Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and declared that it ceased to exist, and now being a protectorate of the Reich. Their citizenswere only given a second-class citizenship, inferior to a full citizenship of Germany. Hitler didn't stop there though, he demanded the return of Danzig which was taken away by the Versailles Treaty. This brought a crisis with Poland and in September, 1939, Hitler and his troops marched into Poland and conquered it in just a few weeks.INVASION OF POLANDWhen France and Britain agreed to return the Sudeten back to Germany, it was in hopes toavoid and another armed conflict with Germany. When it became clear that Hitler next planned aninvasion of Poland, Great Britain had no choice but to issue a threat of war if Germany went throughwith the operation. The threat was simply disregard, and the attack on Poland was carried out as planned. On 1st of September,1939, at least 80 different divisions of Hitler's armies fully equiped with tanks, motor cars, machine guns, heavy artiillery, anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons very superior and more well organ...
