World War II – 1939 – 1945 2005 New DVD Top-quality Free UK shipping

The year 1939 saw the start of the second pan European war in just 30 years. It involved every major world power in a war for global domination which, at its end, had cost the lives of 50 million people whilst Europe and large parts of Asia lay in ruins. The countdown began on the 9th March when the Czechoslovakian President, Hacha, sacked his pro-German Prime Minister. Just 6 days later, Hitler sent his troops into Czechoslovakia to impose a protectorate. The legal government was suppressed and the Gestapo began rounding up any who might oppose the invasion. There was international outrage but no positive moves to block the enlargement for Germany. Britain and France accepted the inevitable and began a massive rearmament and subsequently declared war.