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1 September 1939
Nazis invade Poland
Hitler enters the city of Gdansk, known as Danzig in German, after the Nazis’ 1939 invasion of Poland.
Photograph: Corbis, via Getty Images
Poland Urged to Look for Nazi-Looted Art Still Held in Its Museums Despite the Polish government’s efforts to recover cultural objects lost during World War II, researchers say its museums hold stolen items left behind by the Nazis. NYT Published Jan. 12, 2020 Updated Jan. 14, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/12/
September 1, 1939
Nazi Germany invades Poland
Nazi soldiers arrive in Gdańsk, Poland, in 1939.
Photograph: AP
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Beginning of World War II as the United Kingdom declares war on Germany in response to the invasion.
The Soviet Union invades from the east.
Germany and the Soviet Union divide Poland between them and treat Polish citizens with extreme brutality.
of the large Jewish population. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/country_profiles/1054724.stm
On Sept. 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, the act that started World War II.
The day before, Nazi operatives had posed as Polish military officers to stage an attack on the radio station in the Silesian city of Gleiwitz.
Germany used the event as the pretext for its invasion of Poland.
The New York Times article about the invasion included a report of the Gleiwitz episode as well as Chancellor Adolf Hitler’s proclamation to the German army, which portrayed Germany’s action as one of self-defense: “In order to put an end to this frantic activity no other means is left to me now than to meet force with force.”
France and England declared war against Germany on Sept. 3, but neither country was prepared to fight and would not deploy a significant number of military forces until the next year, leaving Poland alone in its defense.
Although it had an army of more than 700,000, Poland was unprepared for Germany’s blitzkrieg tactics.
Its army could not deploy its troops quickly enough to defend against the more powerful German forces.
As a result, many civilians lost their lives.
Any hopes of repelling the invasion were dashed on Sept. 17, when the Soviet Red Army invaded from east.
By the end of September, Germany and the Soviet Union had control of the country.
The last organized Polish resistance
was defeated on Oct. 6. things appeared to quickly quiet down. News was sparse from the front lines, and the American press started referring to the situation as the “Phony War.”
During this time, however, German forces steadily occupied Poland and continued to focus on civilians, imprisoning and murdering thousands of the country’s residents.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/country_profiles/1054724.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/1/
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https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/warsaw
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7913.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/ww2outbreak/7914.shtml
https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/01/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2009/sep/01/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/12/
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