this date in history - World War II begins

After staging the Reichstag fire to pass the 1933 Enabling Act establishing absolute dictatorial powers, withdrawing Germany from the League of Nations, reclaiming the Saarland, openly defying Versailles by reintroducing military conscription, systematically destroying the labor unions, jailing or murdering political opponents, persecuting marginalized groups like Jehovah's Witnesses, gay people, and pacifists, stripping German Jews of their citizenship through the Nuremberg Laws, unleashing the nationwide Jew-hating violence of the Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938, intervening in support of fascist Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), formalizing the Rome-Berlin Axis and signing the Anti-Comintern Pact with Japan, remilitarizing the Rhineland, annexing Austria, forcing the Western powers into the Munich Agreement to surrender the Sudetenland, dismantling the rest of Czechoslovakia, securing the backing of Fascist Italy through the Pact of Steel, and signing a non-aggression pact with the Russian dictator Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler finally launched his invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939—shattering European peace, and forcing a reluctant England and France to fulfill their alliance pledges and trigger World War II.

Vendetta - War (from Vendetta's 1988 album Brain Damage)