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2 days ago · On September 1, 1939, at 4:45 a.m., the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire on the Polish military transit depot at Westerplatte, marking the beginning of the invasion. The German forces, employing their Blitzkrieg (lightning war) strategy, rapidly advanced into Poland from the north, south, and west.
May 5, 2024 · Jadwiga of Anjou (1373/4 – July 17, 1399) was Queen of Poland from 1384 to her death. She was a member of the Capetian House of Anjou and the daughter of King Louis I of Hungary and Elisabeth of Bosnia.
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However, after an unsuccessful two-month siege on Marienburg, Jagiello caught Dysentery in the camp and died at age of 38, leaving behind Jadwiga, his three children and a posthumous bornt son Władysław. Since then, Jadwiga ruled Poland and Lithuania alone.
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May 20, 2024 · In World War II, the Polish armed forces were the fourth largest Allied forces in Europe, after those of the Soviet Union, United States, and Britain. Poles made substantial contributions to the Allied effort throughout the war, fighting on land, sea, and in the air.
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2 days ago · Under the occupation during World War II, the Germans created an Emissary Bank (Bank Emisyjny) in Kraków, as Polish bank officials fled to Paris in France. It started operating on 8 April 1940, and in May old banknotes from 1924 to 1939 were overstamped by the new entity.
May 18, 2024 · In a strict sense, the Union of Krewo or Act of Krėva (also Union of Krevo, Act of Kreva) was a set of prenuptial promises made in the Kreva Castle on 14 August 1385 by Jogaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania, in exchange for marriage to the underage reigning Queen Jadwiga of Poland.
May 20, 2024 · 19. Oskar Schindler. At first, Oskar Schindler hired about a thousand Jewish laborers for his business, as they were very cheap to obtain. What he had originally been done for the money changed to a rescue operation when he saw how the Jews were being detained and murdered.
