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German military officer Wilhelm Keitel in uniform and peaked cap with eagle insignia, facing forward in a formal portrait. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini
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Germany invades Poland, September 1, 1939, using 45 German divisions and aerial attack. By September 20, only Warsaw held out, but final surrender came on September 29.
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Wilhelm Keitel, head of the German Armed Forces High Command, World War II.
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