There were other good things to note on Labor Day 2008, and schools were out anyway.
Remember that September 1, 1939, Adolf Hitler’s soldiers crossed into Poland, claiming that Poland had somehow threatened Germany’s security.
And so began World War II in Europe. Read about it in the coverage from the New York Times, then.
Front page of the New York Times, Sept. 1, 1939
Europeans have not forgotten. So we might understand why Europe gets jumpy when a big nation’s army rolls across the borders of a smaller nation, claiming the smaller nation provoked them.
Posted by Ed Darrell 
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