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Nazi-Soviet Pact 1939

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The Nazi-Soviet Pact (sometimes called the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact after the respective foreign ministers) was signed on 28 August 1939. This pact was officially a non-aggression treaty between Russia and Germany. In signing the treaty Hitler was precluding the risk of war on two fronts, which had compromised Germany during the First World War. Secretly, the pact also divided Poland between the two protagonists, thus clearing Hitler's path for the invasion of Poland. The treaty was a strategic move on Stalin's part also; it was his attempt to protect his western border from German aggression by creating a buffer zone in Poland.

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Strange bed-fellows Bert Thomas Evening Standard 18 Sep 1939	At the frontier Bert Thomas Evening Standard 21 Sep 1939	"Come on in - it's fine!" Bert Thomas Evening Standard 31 Oct 1939	No caption Bert Thomas Evening Standard 31 Oct 1939
Someone is taking someone for a walk David Low (1891-1963) Picture Post 21 Oct 1939	Rendezvous David Low (1891-1963) Evening Standard 20 Sep 1939	"If the British don't, maybe we will" David Low (1891-1963) Evening Standard 29 Jun 1939	Exchange of Christmas parcels David Low (1891-1963) Evening Standard 22 Dec 1939