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Show gium in quick succession, moving on to France and just missing the British army of occupation at Dunkirk. Hitler's divisions attacked attack-ed from all directions, his tanks and panzers blasting everything in their path after the Luftwaffe had prepared the way by blasting the enemy's airdromes and defenses. Heavy and medium bombers ranged behind the front lines, as dive bombers "pin-pointed" the targets into destruction. Tanks roared through the holes cut in the enemy lines and then fanned out behind the front lines, cutting communications and blasting the strong points that were only meant to stop infantry and which could not stand up against cannon-bearing mechanical monsters. PANZER DIVISIONS ' MARCH INTO POLAND START WAR Early in the morning of September Septem-ber 1, 1939, Nazi panzer divisions crossed the border into Poland and officially started World War n. Hitler had already negotiated the controversial neutrality pact with Russia and had that protection protec-tion against interference with his plans in the east. In the west, the French were entrenched behind the "impregnable" Maginot line and thought they were safe no mat.ter what happened. Poland, weak and isolated, with a large army that was composed of mostly cavalry regiments and foot soldiers, was no match for the lightning-like thrusts of the mechanized mech-anized divisions that Hitler sent into battle. The Poles, cut off from any possible aid from Great Britain Brit-ain and France, were doomed. Less than a month of fighting was all the Germans needed "to capture the country. The "blitzkrieg" had won the first of its many battles. By October, the Germans could now turn their attention to France which was crouched behind its walls of fortifications and oblivious oblivi-ous to the threat of conquest from around the ends of the Maginot line. Occupation of Norway . . . But before he could deal with France, Hitler had to attend to the possible threats from the north, where Great Britain might have been able to land troops in Norway or Sweden and sweep down on an unprotected flank. Therefore, the Germans occupied Denmark and then Norway, beating beat-ing down the feeble resistance that those peace-loving countries were able to marshal. It was all so ridiculously easy. By May, 1940, the battle plans of the Germans were set and the "blitkrieg" moved again, this time striking the Netherlands and Bel- |