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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]
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 )
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 18 September 1939 (Second World War)
The siege of Warsaw in 1939 was fought between the Polish Warsaw Army (Polish: Armia Warszawska, Armia Warszawa) garrisoned and entrenched in Warsaw and the invading German Army. [1]: 70–78 It began with huge aerial bombardments initiated by the Luftwaffe starting on September 1, 1939 following the German invasion of Poland.
Westerplatte Peninsula, Gdańsk, Poland; Associated events German-Soviet Invasion of Poland 1939, Second World War; Associated themes Nazi-Soviet Invasion of Poland, 1939, Poland 1939-1945, Polish Armed Forces 1939-1945; Associated keywords Military occupation; Category
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]
The Wizna fortified area was one of the most important nodes in Northern Poland, providing cover of both the river crossings, and the roads Łomża–Białystok and roads towards Brześć Litewski on the rear of Polish forces. Construction started in June 1939, only two months before the outbreak of World War II. [6]
On the night of 8–9 September, Polish soldiers manned two defensive lines. Two infantry battalions with 7 cannons defended the district of Zasanie, and their task was to keep their positions on nearby hills until forces of 11th Infantry Division, fighting the Wehrmacht near Dubiecko, reached the safety of the fortress. Second line of defence ...