Richard Harrison wrote:
Walter, W2DU wrote:
"What became WWII was without question the Hitlerian invasion of the
Sudetenland."

Maybe so, but it was taken without firing a shot.

I recall that on September 29, 1938, Neville Chamberlin, Adolph Hitler,
Edouard Daladier, and Benito Mussolini signed the Munich Agreement which
transferred to Germany the Sudetenland, that contained a large
German-speaking population from Czechoslovakia.

Chamberlin, caricatured in the U.S. with his umbrella and briefcase,
shared with Hitler an extreme dislike of bolsheviks. These proclivities
were demonstrated during the 1937 Spanish Civil War.

Chamberlin, the appeaser, went home from Munich declaring "Peace in Our
Time".

On September 1, 1939, nine days after signing a nonagression pact with
the Soviet Union, in the predawn darkness, Hitler attacked by land, sea,
and air, and captured by day`s end, the Polish port city of Danzig.

WW-2 officially began two days later, on September 3, 1939 when Brittain
and France declared war on Germany.

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI

Don't you just love people who have their facts straight?