marika #3

            While Marika’s family was trying to hide the fact that they were Jewish other parts of the world were dealing with the attacks from Hitler and the German armies.

During the beginning of the story Marika, Marika’s family began to hear about the unrest in Germany and how a man named Hitler was causing trouble for the Jews in Germany and Austria. At the same time, European countries, as well as The Unites States, also realized that Hitler was planning something evil. In June of 1939, President Roosevelt offered to have a meeting with other nations to try to prevent war. But on September 1^st 1939, Germany invaded Poland beginning WWII. The German’s had a half a million soldiers than Poland. Their weapons and aircrafts were superior. The German’s easily overtook much of Poland with in five days and surrounded the capital Warsaw. Soon, the capital of Poland fell to the Germans. The Polish people were not prepared to overcome the tremendous air power that Germany had. Britain and France realized that they could not convince Hitler to withdraw from Poland so they declared war on Germany.

Since Germany had defeated Poland, the USSR decided to take advantage of the situation and take back land that they had lost during WWI. They also attacked Finland for some land, and a base there. Germany put up with the USSR and planned on dealing with them later. Hitler was busy planning attacks on Britain and France.

When Marika’s family came back from their vacation in Vac, Marika’s father read in the Newspaper about the German’s attack on Poland. That we talked about in the above paragraphs. Marika did not want to face the bad news. She did not want to worry about the German’s coming to Budapest. Although her father was worried.