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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]
German 10th Army advances against Polish defenders of 7th Infantry Division in the Pryzstain sector. [14]: 153 German public reactions to the outbreak of war are less than enthusiastic. [15]: Ch.III Soviet Union allowed the Germans to use radio stations in Minsk to enable them to covertly instruct German pilots bombing Poland. [16]
The German invasion plan called for the start of hostilities before the declaration of war and for the Blitzkrieg doctrine of lightning war to be pursued. German units were to invade Poland from three directions: from the German mainland through the western Polish border; from the north, from the exclave of East Prussia
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
Already during the 1939 German invasion, dedicated units of SS and police (the Einsatzgruppen) were tasked with arresting or outright killing of those resisting the Germans. [10] [75] [76] They were aided by some regular German army units and "self-defense" forces composed of members of the German minority in Poland, the Volksdeutsche. [10]
The German aggression was anticipated by the Poles from the spring of 1939, when Poland refused to join the Axis against the Soviet Union (see Polish Soviet War of 1919-1920). Poland’s strategy during the forecasted war would be to withstand the initial German attack and trigger France and Great Britain to declare war on Germany, and ...
German Navy (Third Reich), SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN, Polish Army; Associated places 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 Battle of Mokra took place on 1 September 1939 near the village of Mokra, 5 km north of Kłobuck and 23 km north-west of Częstochowa, Poland.It was one of the first battles of the Invasion of Poland, during the Second World War, and was one of the few Polish victories of that campaign and the first German defeat of the conflict.