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These were again repeated last night. Recently in one night, there were as many as twenty-one frontier incidents: last night there were fourteen, of which three were quite serious. I have, therefore, resolved to speak to Poland in the same language that Poland for months past has used toward us... This night for the first time Polish regular soldiers fired on our own territory. Since 5:45 a. m., we have been returning the fire... I will continue this struggle, no matter against whom, until the safety of the Reich and its rights are secured
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Niemiecka dywersja we wrześniu 1939 w Londyńskich meldunkach
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The Polish Atrocities Against the German Minority in Poland
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Heinrich Himmler: The SS, Gestapo, His Life and Career
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Der Bromberger Blutsonntag: Legende und Wirklichkeit.
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727:, University of TorontoPress, 1998,
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510:The SS, Alibi of a Nation, 1922-1945
322:1 September speech to the Reichstag
1080:Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses
427:, Skyhorse Publishing Inc., 2007,
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392:Accusations of genocide in Donbas
333:By mid-1939, thousands of Polish
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572:, Transaction Publishers, 2002,
23:. For the 1979 Polish film, see
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913:Personal Staff ReichsfĂĽhrer-SS
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1085:Persecution of black people
973:(second personal assistant)
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