1. Hitler’s Path to War History 323 April 10, 2013

2. Mussolini promises Italian support for Franco; Hitler sends the “Legion Condor”

3. Guernica, a Spanish town leveled by German bombers

4. Kurt von Schuschnigg (1897-1977) Austrian Dictator, 1934-1938

5. The Anschluss: Germany’s army marches into Austria, March 1938

6. Jubilant crowds greet Hitler in Vienna, Austria

7. Hitler’s next target: the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia

8. When Hitler threatens war, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940) comes to visit

9. The Munich Conference: Britain, France, Italy, and Germany

11. Chamberlain: “Peace in our time”

12. The Sudetenland, Oct. 1938: Troops greeted fanatically – Jews and socialists rounded up

13. A rubber- goods store after “Aryani- zation”

14. Anti-Semitic outbursts in Vienna (March 1938): Jews forced to clean streets by hand

15. Identity card of a German Jew (ca. 1938)

16. Polish Jews deported (Oct. 1938)

17. Ernst vom Rath and his killer, Herschel Grynszpan (Nov. 7, 1938)

18. Across Germany, synagogues burnt to the ground (Nov. 9, 1938)

19. Kristallnacht in Kassel: The Aftermath (Nov. 10, 1938)

20. Broken glass (Nov. 10, 1938)

21. Population in German concentration camps, 1933-39 July 193326,700 July 1934 8,000 1936 5,000 1937 8,000 193824,000 (for a few weeks, 35,000 Jews) 193922,000 (half criminal, half political)

22. March 1939: German soldiers seize Prague and the remainder of Bohemia

23. Danzig in the 1930s: the “Free City” backs ties with National Socialist Germany

24. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (Aug. 23, 1939)

25. Sept. 1, 1939: Germany invades Poland Sept. 3, 1939: Britain & France declare war on Germany