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After World War I, the Treaty of Versailles forced Germany to relinquish a lot of territory, both colonies across the globe and in Europe. A large portion of German land was given to the newly formed Poland, which had been destroyed by Russia, Austria and Germany in the late 1700s.

Hitler's beef with Poland was that he wanted to get that land back. There were a lot of German people living there, and he told stories about how the Polish government wasn't treating them well, and that they really wanted to live in Germany again. Germany invaded Poland in September 1939 after German agents dressed as Polish soldiers attacked a German radio station near the border with Poland.

The underlying problem was that Hitler actually just wanted to conquer eastern Europe. He wanted to build a "Greater Germanic Empire" in Poland and Russia, and conquering Poland was the first step on that path. He would later foolishly invade Russia to continue this quest.

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