How an ex-History student is using Twitter to bring World War 2 to life
September 25, 2011, by Paul Sawers
WW2 On August 31st, 1939, Hitler ordered the invasion of Poland with the first moves scheduled to take place at 4.45am the following morning. During the night, German units posing as Polish troops attack a radio transmitter near the German town of Gleiwitz as a propaganda mechanism for justifying the subsequent invasion. And thus the war that became known as World War 2 was set in motion. Since that day, the events of the 6-year war have been regaled across film, radio, theater, books, magazines…and now Twitter. On August 31st this year, the Real Time WWII Twitter account sprung into life, reporting on events from World War 2 as though they were happening in real-time, 72-years to the day after the original events.

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