... " of 50,000 Nazis was formed. Their order was to dismantle any non-Nazi organization that may express resistance. Hermann Goering clearly instructed them "legal and bureaucratic aspects will not limit the means I'll use...My job is not justice. My job is to eliminate and destroy, that's all...If you use your pistols in following my orders, you're protected ... but to fight. A few days later, in September 1st, 1939, the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe, the German army and air force, attacked Poland in a way that shocked the world with its speed and efficiency. This was Blitzkrieg ("lightning war"...

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