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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]
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 )
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 monument commemorates soldiers of the Peasant Battalions and the People's Union of Women, resistance organisations active in Poland during the Second World War. It is placed at the intersection of Czerniakowska Street and Polski Walczącej Avenue, within the neighbourhood of Czerniaków in the district of Mokotów. It was designed Agnieszka ...
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 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.
During the 1939 invasion of Poland, she was commandant of the Silesian-district Women's Military Training, participating in the defense of Lwów. In October 1939 she joined the Silesian branch of the Union of Armed Struggle (Związek Walki Zbrojnej) under the nom de guerre "Zelma", which she later changed to "Zo". In late 1940 she was ...