Hitler's Reich

Germanic Invasions

In 1935, two years after Adolf Hitler rose to power, the "Act of Conscript" was passed by Hitler, this act forced any man between the ages of 17 and 25 to be in the Grand German Army, by April Hitler's "Grand German Army" had over ten million troops, the Waffen SS had two million, the Luftwaffe had five million aircraft and four million pilots, the Gestapo had a beloved five-hundred thousand and the Great German Navy had six million ships and three million sailors. Although many thought this impossible many people from surrounding countries such as Denmark, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Austria had travelled to Germany when Hitler's regime gave so much work and decent pay. Over the course of the summer the German troops were lined up against the borders of Denmark, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Holland and Belgium. Eventually on 17th October 1935 the order to attack Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Denmark came through to the German forces. Austria's citizens welcomed the Grand German Army and some even took up and and helped them fight, soon word of people assisting the German advance made others help before the German Army reached them, much of the Austrian army was attacked by Austrian civilians and the Grand German Army finished the rest off, it soon became clear to the Austrian government that they had lost and a mass suicide of the Austrian government took place and the remaining government surrendered on 24th October 1935. The attack had barely killed any German and very few Austrians died due to their support for Hitler. The Danish attack went well to, their navy was completely obliterated by the Grand German Navy, sea towns and cities were then bombarded by shells from the German ships up until the 20th October 1935, when ships carrying 250,000 troops landed. Whilst the sea front was doing well the land front was struggling against a barricade of Danish troops but they eventually broke passed the barricades with heavy artillery and reached Copenhagen by 11th November 1935 but by then all important government members had left the country but because of this the German Army publicly executed everyone in Copenhagen, this was later known as the Copenhagen Massacre. In Czechoslovakia a similar thing happened to what happened in Austria but to a smaller scale, eventually on 29th October 1935 a full scale retreat was ordered by the Czechoslovakian government, all Czechoslovakian forces retreated to Prague, this resulted in a two month long siege but the Czechoslovakian government surrendered on 3rd December 1935. In Poland the German Army was not as successful and it was the battle of Danzig that allowed Germany to invade Poland, after that battle all German territories were touching, allowing the German forces to cave in and after the Czechoslovakian surrender in early December the Germans had even more leverage on Poland. The Great German Army reached Warsaw on 17th December 1935 and publicly executed the Polish Government, the Polish navy was sabotaged by the Waffen SS and could no longer be used against the German Navy. Throughout all this time the League of Nations did nothing in fear of another word war but for Germany the war had begun.

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