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The Invasion of Poland in 1939 was the first Nazi German attack off World War 2. It was the start of World War 2 in Europe. Two weeks later the Russians invaded Poland. The invasion took place from 1st September to 6th October 1939. Britain and France, standing by their agreement to protect Poland they declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939. The allies didn't stop the invasion of Poland in the end. Poland was taken by Germany and the and Russia. The two countries divided Poland between them because of a treaty that was signed years before the start of the war.

Three main countries involved in the invasion of Poland were Germany and the Nazi army as well as the Russian army.

One of Adolf Hitler's first major foreign policy initiatives …show more content…

In what was to become the first military engagement of World War Two. Simultaneously, 62 German divisions supported by 1,300 aircraft commenced the invasion of Poland.

The Soviet invasion of Poland was a Soviet military operation that started without a formal declaration of war on 17 September 1939. On that morning, 16 days after Germany invaded Poland from the west, the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east.

Soviet secret police carried out an organized massacre of about 22,000 Polish army officers, authorities and government officers in a forest near Katlyn in Russia's Smolensk Region.
Soviet secret police worked in death camps and prisons and roamed the streets searching for Jews.

After the invasion, more than 400,000 Jews were held in the Warsaw ghetto.
Between July 22 and September 12, 1942, the German authorities transported or Killed around 300,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto. SS and police units extradited 265,000 Jews to the Treblinka killing center and 11,580 forced into labor camps. The Germans executed more than 10,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto during the deportation operations. The German authorities granted only 35,000 Jews permission to remain in the ghetto. For the at least 60,000 Jews remaining in the Warsaw ghetto, deportation was bound to

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