What war happened on or around 1931?

Question

I am currently reading a book called "Run, Boy, Run" and It's by Uri Orlev, and It has to do with war but I don't know which one.
It gives me details like The Warsaw ghetto, A town called Blonie..
That's all the details it has given me so far about the setting but It has to do with Jewish and German...
Any ideas??
I really need help on this lolz.

Answer 1

If it has to do with the Warsaw Ghetto, then the War is World War II. These are the details of the Warsaw Ghetto.

The Warsaw Ghetto, enclosed at first with barbed wire but later with a brick wall 10 feet high and 11 miles long, comprised the former Jewish quarter. Into it Jews were herded from surrounding areas until by the summer of 1942 nearly 500,000 of them lived within its 840 acres (340 hectares); many had no housing at all, and those who did were crowded in at an average of 13 per room. Starvation and disease (especially typhoid) killed thousands each month; and, beginning July 22, 1942, transfers to the death camp at Treblinka began at the rate of more than 5,000 Jews per day.

By January 1943 the Nazis had emptied most of the ghetto by deceiving Jews into the belief that they were being deported to "labour camps" in serene rural settings. A handful of Jews had escaped Treblinka, however, and word had reached the underground in the Warsaw Ghetto that the deportations were actually one-way trips to gas chambers. On January 18 the Nazis entered the ghetto to assemble a shipment of Jews and were met with surprising armed resistance by the underground Jewish Combat Organization (Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa; ZOB). Street fighting went on for four days, leaving about 50 Germans--and many more Jews--dead, but affording ZOB an opportunity to seize some German arms. The Germans withdrew and stopped the deportation scheme until April 19, when SS chief Heinrich Himmler launched a special Aktion to clear the ghetto by force in honour of Hitler's birthday, April 20. The 19th was also the first day of Passover, the Jewish holy days celebrating freedom from slavery in Egypt. Before dawn, 2,000 SS men and army troops moved into the area with tanks, rapid-fire artillery, and ammunition trailers. While most remaining Jews hid in bunkers, by prearrangement, the ZOB and a few independent bands of Jewish guerrillas, in all some 1,500 strong, opened fire with their motley weaponry--pistols, a few rifles, one machine gun, and homemade bombs--destroying a number of tanks, killing German troops, and holding off reinforcements trying to enter the ghetto. The Germans withdrew at evening. The next day the fighting resumed and casualties mounted. The Germans used gas, police dogs, and flamethrowers in an effort to rout the Jews from their bunkers, leaving the city under a pall of smoke for days. Not until May 8 did the Nazis manage to take the ZOB headquarters bunker. Civilians hiding there surrendered, but many of the surviving ZOB fighters took their own lives to avoid being taken alive; so died Mordecai Anielewicz, the charismatic young commander of the underground army. The one-sided battle continued until May 16, becoming sporadic as Jewish ammunition was exhausted. Total casualty figures for the uprising are uncertain, but the Germans likely lost several hundred soldiers during the 28 days that it took them to kill or deport over 56,000 Jews. SS Major General Jürgen Stroop supervised the coup de grace: the dynamiting of the Great Synagogue of Warsaw. Thereupon he wrote his report: "The Warsaw Ghetto Is No More."

Answer 2

I don't think so. The Axis ability to reinforce and supply that army was hit and miss at best. El Alamein did stop the Germans from pushing into the Middle East, but I don't it would have mattered in the grand scheme of things. The North Africa campaign was considered a backwater operation by Hitler, he was primarily focused on the Eastern front at that time(Stalingrad was raging during this battle, which absolutely altered the course of the war). The Americans would have still come in the back door at Morocco and once air and naval superiority would have been gained, the outcome would have been inevitable. El Alamein served as a morale win for the British because they had been getting hammered since the start of the war and it was looking like they just could not win. El Alamein was the win they needed at the right time. Remember, after this battle, the Afrika Corps remained a thorn in the side of the Allies for almost a year afterwords. But in the end in either case, the weight of the Allied forces would have prevailed, a win for Rommel and his forces at El Alamein would have simply postponed it.

Answer 3

Are you sure its 1931? Almost sounds like what happened in 1941 when th Blatic States were overrun by the Nazis. The only invasion I know about in 1931 was when Japan invaded China(I think it was Manchuria).

Answer 4

Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931.It was the beginning of Japanese aggression in Asia to form an Asian Empire

Answer 5

Germany invades Poland. but it's odd because that happened in 1939.

The only war i can think of in 1931 was Japan invading China

Answer 6

the warsaw ghetto wasn't established until after nazi occupation of poland in 1939.

Answer 7

It sounds like Germany's war with Poland prior to WWII