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Well, it was Germany and Poland who were the first to fight in it, but it was really four countries that went to war at the same time. Britain, France, Germany, and Poland were the four.
To my knowledge he never did. It was war by default when he invaded Poland on the 1st of September 1939. The British declared war on Germany on the 3rd of September 1939. Thereafter the German propaganda machine always maintained that Britain had started the war by its declaration. This back-fired badly some time into the war when the Germans spoke of the war as having started on the 1st of September 1939.
Britain and France declared war on Germany soon after September 1, 1939, after Germany attacked Poland for the first time, marking the beginning(?)of the Holocaust.
Belgium was invaded by Germany on 4 August 1914, despite the fact that its neutrality was guaranteed by Britain, France and Germany. Since 1906 Germany had only one plan (the Schlieffen Plan) for a future war with France and that involved marching through Belgium. Incidentally, the original version of the plan involved marching through the Netherlands, too, but it was revised after Schlieffen's retirement.
Britain declared war on Germany at 11am on Sunday 3rd September 1939.