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Who fired the first shot in WWll?

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  • NONAME
    1 decade ago
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    Me

  • theophilus
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Hitler - or his army. Actually it wasn't a first shot - it was an invasion that started WWll.

  • bumpocooper
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    The Germans when they invaded Poland. However, you could argue that Japan did it when they attacked China in the mid 1930's (37 I believe).

  • eggman
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Germany's third panzer division when they burst into Poland on Sept. 9 1939.

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  • xiy
    1 decade ago

    the japs fired the first shot in world war 2, invaded korea and china.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The Schleswig-Holstein when it shelled Poland.

    Source(s): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_battleship_Sch...
  • El Pistolero Negra
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    I imagine there will be some lib on here that will blame it on Pres. Bush's great uncle or someone else related to him.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Wilhelm Hemlerswine......a German that followed Hitlers order

  • jimbo
    1 decade ago

    I think when Hitler bombed Poland.

  • Katz
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Does it really matter?? I mean, lets concentrate on "the now"!!

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