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The occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II (1939–1945) began with the Invasion of Poland in September 1939, and it was formally concluded with the defeat of Germany by the Allies in May 1945.
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.
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The Soviet invasion of Poland was a military conflict by the Soviet Union without a formal declaration of war. On 17 September 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east, 16 days after Nazi Germany invaded Poland from the west.
- 17 September-6 October 1939
- Soviet victory
- Poland
Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. German occupation of Poland during World War II (7 C, 14 P) Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland 1939–1941 (2 C, 23 P) * World War II crimes in Poland (6 C, 36 P, 1 F) People from wartime administrations in Poland (1939–1947) (2 C, 14 P)
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The independence of Poland had been successfully promoted to the Allies in Paris by Roman Dmowski and Ignacy Paderewski. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson made the independence of Poland a war goal in his Fourteen Points, and this goal was endorsed by the Allies in spring 1918. As part of the Armistice terms imposed on Germany, all German forces had to...
Reborn Poland faced a host of daunting challenges: extensive war damage, a ravaged economy, a population one-third composed of wary national minorities, an economy largely under the control of German industrial interests, and a need to reintegrate the three zones that had been forcibly kept apart during the era of partition. Poland's formal politic...
Foreign minister Józef Beck was in full charge of foreign policy by 1935 but he had a weak hand. Poland with 35 million people had a large population but a thin industrial base; its war plans focused on the Soviet Union instead of Germany. Poland had long borders with two more powerful dictatorships, Hitler's Germany and Stalin's USSR. Poland was i...
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Country Studies. Federal Research Division. - Poland.
Surveys
1. Berend, Iván T. Decades of Crisis: Central and Eastern Europe before World War II(1998), comparisons with other countries 2. Biskupski, M. B. The History of Poland. Greenwood, 2000. 264 pp. online edition 3. The Cambridge History of Poland, (2 vols., Cambridge University Press, 1941) covers 1697–1935 4. Davies, Norman. God's Playground. A History of Poland. Vol. 2: 1795 to the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981. 5. Davies, Norman. Heart of Europe: A Short History of Poland.Oxfo...
Politics and diplomacy
1. Cienciala, Anna M., and Titus Komarnicki. From Versailles to Locarno: keys to Polish foreign policy, 1919–25 (University Press of Kansas, 1984) online 2. Davies, Norman. White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War 1919-1920 and The Miracle on the Vistula(2003) 3. Drzewieniecki, Walter M. "The Polish Army on the Eve of World War II," Polish Review (1981) 26#3 pp 54–64. in JSTOR 4. Garlicki, Andrzej. Józef Piłsudski, 1867-1935(New York: Scolar Press 1995), scholarly biography; one-vol versi...
Social and economic topics
1. Abramsky, C. et al. eds. The Jews in Poland(Oxford: Blackwell 1986) 2. Bartoszewski, W. and Polonsky, A., eds. The Jews in Warsaw. A History(Oxford: Blackwell 1991) 3. Blanke, R. Orphans of Versailles. The Germans in Western Poland, 1918-1939(1993) 4. Gutman, Y. et al. eds. The Jews of Poland Between Two World Wars(1989). 5. Heller, C. S. On the Edge of Destruction. Jews of Poland Between the Two World Wars(1977) 6. Hoffman, E. Shtetl. The Life and Death of a Small Town and the World of Po...
Inclusion criteria. Geographic scope of the works include Poland as it was in 1939 including Polish occupied Trans-Olza and the Holocaust in Poland. Works about other nations are included when they contain substantial material related to the history of the Poland during World War II.
Historical View. World War II - historical view. Poland was the first country to put up armed resistance against Hitler. In May 1939 in no uncertain terms Poland rejected German territorial demands. Collectivization. Compulsory collectivization and the ensuing mass repression of the 1930s led to a catastrophe.
