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  2. Military history of Poland during World War II - Wikipedia

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    The European Theatre of World War II opened with the German invasion of Poland on Friday September 1, 1939, followed by the Soviet invasion of Poland on September 17, 1939. On 6 October, following the Polish defeat at the Battle of Kock , German and Soviet forces gained full control over Poland.

  3. World War II casualties of Poland - Wikipedia

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    Franciszek Proch was a Polish lawyer and journalist. During the war he was imprisoned at the Dachau concentration camp. In the post war era he resided in Germany and the United States. [71] Proch published Poland's Way of the Cross in 1987 in which he estimated Poland's war dead. [72]

  4. Western betrayal - Wikipedia

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    The "Big Three" at the Yalta Conference: Winston Churchill (UK), Franklin D. Roosevelt (USA), and Joseph Stalin (USSR). Western betrayal is the view that the United Kingdom, France and the United States failed to meet their legal, diplomatic, military and moral obligations to the Czechoslovakians and Poles before, during and after World War II.

  5. History of Poland (1939–1945) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Occupation of Poland (1939–1945) - Wikipedia

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    Tadeusz Piotrowski, Professor of Sociology at the University of New Hampshire has provided a reassessment of Poland's losses in World War II. Polish war dead included 5,150,000 victims of Nazi crimes against ethnic Poles and the Holocaust , the treatment of Polish citizens by occupiers included 350,000 deaths during the Soviet occupation in ...

  7. Invasion of Poland - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. History of Poland (1918–1939) - Wikipedia

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    The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the Poles in the Second World War (2012) Korbel, Josef. Poland Between East and West: Soviet and German Diplomacy toward Poland, 1919–1933 (Princeton University Press, 1963) online; Polonsky, A. Politics in Independent Poland, 1921-1939: The Crisis of Constitutional Government (1972) Remak, Joachim.

  9. European theatre of World War II - Wikipedia

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    The European theatre of World War II was one of the two main theatres of combat [nb 19] during World War II, taking place from September 1939 to May 1945.The Allied powers (including the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union) fought the Axis powers (including Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy) on both sides of the continent in the Western and Eastern fronts.