The Road to War - July 1939

6 – The last Jewish businesses are closed in Germany as the persecution of several minorities moves forward.

10 – British Prime Minister reaffirms total support to the Polish and that all matters concerning the free city of Dantzig are not limited to the relations between Germany and Poland. If hostilities begin, Britain will intervene.

In late July German and Russian officials end the terms of an extended economic agreement with the objective of supplying badly need raw materials to the Nazi’s war industry. In an event of a total war with Britain and France, Germany knows that sea routes will be impossible to maintain and the USSR is the best way to get those supplies. Since the beginning of the talks, German representatives always tried to achieve, at the same time, a political agreement.

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