Jura The idiot
General
It is somewhat Euro-centric to take this date and place. Better choose the Marco Polo bridge incident, July 7, 1937.
great, my early morning post got noticed
... and only about half a year ago on the SDF (was it a post by Lezt? by the way, Lezt, how are you?
as an alternative starting date of WW2
... another alternative would be September 3, 1100 hours of London time; by the way I remember reading kind of recollections of Doenitz, at that time the commander of Kriegsmarine's submarine force, who was appalled by the fact Germany was at war that soon (from his perspective -- German submarines were not yet ready for their strategic goal, now called -- but tactically ... what immediately comes to my mind is U-47 -- Prien -- Royal Oak)