Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Wyszanów massacre, which occurred on September 2, 1939, in the village of Wyszanów was a war crime committed by the Wehrmacht during its invasion of Poland.On that day, 22 Poles, mostly elderly people, women, and children, died from bullets, flames, and grenades thrown into the basements.
Polish prisoners of war captured by the Red Army during the Soviet invasion of Poland. As a result of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939, hundreds of thousands of Polish soldiers became prisoners of war. Official Soviet estimate for the number of POWs taken during th campaign was 190,584 and is treated as reliable by some historians. [3]
The Invasion of Poland, [e] also known as the September Campaign, [f] Polish Campaign, [g] and Polish Defensive War of 1939 [h] [13] (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II. [14]
Record group: Collection SFF: JEROME R. LILIENTHAL STEREOGRAPHIC COLLECTION RELATING TO THE GERMAN INVASION OF POLAND, 1939 - 1939 (National Archives Identifier: 988) Series: Stereographic Views, "Soldaten des Fuhrers im Felde" ("The Fuhrer's Soldiers in the Field"), compiled 1939 - ca. 1939 (National Archives Identifier: 559368 )
English: The German-soviet Invasion of Poland, 1939 Red Army soldier guarding a Polish PWS-26 trainer aircraft shot down near the city of Równe (Rivne) in the Soviet occupied part of Poland. Date
The history of Poland from 1939 to 1945 encompasses primarily the period from the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union to the end of World War II.Following the German–Soviet non-aggression pact, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany on 1 September 1939 and by the Soviet Union on 17 September.
The Serock massacre, which took place during the night of September 4–5, 1939, in the village of Serock in northern Poland, was a war crime committed by the Wehrmacht during its invasion of Poland. On that night, between 66 and 84 Poles, mostly prisoners of war , were shot by German guards.
Diplomatic relations were, however, re-established in 1941 after the German invasion of the Soviet Union forced Joseph Stalin to look for allies. Thus the military agreement from August 14 and subsequent Sikorski–Mayski Agreement from August 17, 1941, resulted in Stalin agreeing to declare the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact in relation to Poland null and void, [29] and release tens of thousands ...